[Wrapper-user] Completely aghast at new licensing terms

[Milton T. <mc...@gm...>]

Q. So when is Open Source not open source?
A. When the copyright owner changes their mind!

 From the Tanuki JSR web-site, and still on display:
/"The Wrapper, being an open source application, is free and will always
remain free. "/   Cheap words in hindsight?

I like many others use the Tanuki Java Service Wrapper because it is a
great solution to a common problem.

I actually don't have a problem with paying some sort of license fee for
is use, but for something like this, I need to be able to build it into
my installer, and I'm not going to go to the bother of creating a
different installer for each target host etc, hence the only version of
JSR that appears relevant is the Developer version. There is no way I
can justify paying thousands of dollars for a developer license for this
piece of work, as useful as it is. Nor could I justify the hassle of
administering a per-host/per-customer license. Sorry!

What I really object to is the fact that features that were previously
part of the (true) Open-Source version have now been classified as
"Professional Features", i.e. the free version is now the functionally
crippled one. I also think you have done yourself a great dis-service by
not consulting with your users about what you planned to do. (I don't 
see any prior discussion about this in the mail archive)

So, I guess we're either stuck with version 3.2.3 - unable to
legitimately obtain the fixes available in 3.3.0 - or we switch to
something else.

Or, someone creates a true open-source fork as of 3.2.3 and we all carry
on from there.

Yours in disgruntlement...
mctozzy