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By Rich Tretola | April 26, 2007
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Yes, that is correct, Flex 3 (or pieces of) will be open source and licensed under the Mozilla Public Licence. Here is what is involved:
Tools to be Open Source
MXML Compiler (mxmlc, compc) AS3 Compiler Flex Command Line Debugger View Source Utilities Web Tier Compiler Modules Automated Testing Framework
Libraries to be open Source
Flex Core Components Flex Apollo Components Graphics Tags Libraries Themes (Halo) RPC Libraries (SOAP, HTTP, Remoting) FABRidge SDK automated test engine SDK Build Scripts and Automated Tests
Closed Source (In SDK)
Saffron/FlashType Library Core Player API Definitions Core Apollo API Definitions
Closed Source (Out of SDK)
Mercury QTP Plugin Charting Components Flex Builder Flex Profiler
Closed Source
Debug Flash Player Release Flash PLayer Debug Apollo Runtime Release Apollo Runtime
What will happen?
Sometime in June: Infrastructure to support open source goes live
Public bug database Public daily builds available (Moxie)
Second Half 2007
Flex SDK 3 is released under current closed licence Open source Flex SDK goes live Phase 1 governance model implemented*
Sometime on 2008 (6 to 12 months after Phase 1)
Phase 2 governance model implemented*
Phase 1: Welcome Active Contribution
Public access to Flex SDK Source
Source moved to public repository General public has read-only access to latest source Source, builds, license, etc. hosted by Adobe Alternate access to project through 3rd party host (SourceForge, etc)
Anyone can contribute to the Flex SDK
Require copyright assignment Submitted through public bug database as attachments to bugs/enhancement requests Contributions must be accompanied by automated tests
Phase 2: Deeper Community Involvment
Sub Projects will be considered
Proposed and owned by external deveopers Must be cleanly seperate code Hosted in the public repository Distributed alongside Flex SDK
External contributors will be considered for core Flex SDK project
Based on activity level, dedication and alignment with Flex SDK Philosophy
Here are two videos of interviews with members of the Flex Team about the open sourcing:
http://scobleizer.com/2007/04/25/adobe-opensources-flex/
This is exciting news and is sure to really speed up the development of the Flex platform.
Topics: Announcements, Flex 3 (Moxie) | 1 Comment »
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May 22nd, 2007 at 4:32 am
Good job, Flex Team!
I still wondering how can you release them to communities with commercial-rules cost. Instead of that, Microsoft enabled Silverlight to be created with their series express tool.
Now I wonder you will release your Flex builder to open source too, you already know no-cost will be first interest to chosen.
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