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Flex 3 will be Open Source
| 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
This is exciting news and is sure to really speed up the development of the Flex platform.
Topics: Announcements, Flex 3 (Moxie) | 1 Comment »
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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