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SammyLin / redactor-rails

This repo is deprecated. Please check out official gem for Redactor 2. https://github.com/Redactor2/redactor2_rails
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Bundling redactor distributions breaks license #98

Closed wyaeld closed 9 years ago

wyaeld commented 10 years ago

While I admire the work you're putting in, including the redactor distributions themselves is breaking Imperavi's licensing.

http://imperavi.com/redactor/faq/#q3

However, keep in mind that Redactor is not an open-source product. It is proprietary commercial copyrighted software and we do not allow it's distribution under any open- source licenses. Think about Redactor as if it was a paid proprietary extension for your project.

http://imperavi.com/redactor/license/

Essentially, you are allowed to do whatever you want with redactor in your own product, but you aren't allowed to become a distributor of the library itself, as you are doing here.

I don't work for Imperavi, I'm actually just a customer of theirs, and I think they do great work. But Imperavi isn't a big company, its only a few people, and paying them for an appropriate license (its a small one-time purchase) so you can use their software, and they can keep working on it, is an excellent deal.

You can't just MIT license a project, which is bundling and distributing someone elses commercial work. It doesn't work like that.

wilgoszpl commented 9 years ago

@wyaeld I have written directly to Imperavi about that. It wasn't our goal to break their license, it was just our oversight. Thanks for heads up!

wilgoszpl commented 9 years ago

I got an answer from Imperavi - probably redactor Code will be removed completely from whole git repository.

wyaeld commented 9 years ago

@wilgoszpl you're welcome. Sorry it resulted in the overall removal.

I've seen other projects successfully ship with a different editor, but explain that redactor is preferred, and give the install instructions.

For our purposes, we just buy a license for unlimited use. Hard to find another organisation out there that offers lifetime updates off a single license, and then ships new versions every month. I want these guys to stay around for a long time.

jaymiejones86 commented 9 years ago

So if redactor is being removed completely from git, will we simply be required to integrate redactor ourselves and use the gem for the Carrierwave support and general customisation?

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Brad Murray notifications@github.com wrote:

@wilgoszpl you're welcome. Sorry it resulted in the overall removal. I've seen other projects successfully ship with a different editor, but explain that redactor is preferred, and give the install instructions.

For our purposes, we just buy a license for unlimited use. Hard to find another organisation out there that offers lifetime updates off a single license, and then ships new versions every month. I want these guys to stay around for a long time.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/SammyLin/redactor-rails/issues/98#issuecomment-75720348

wilgoszpl commented 9 years ago

@wyaeld , buying OEM license will not work in this project - the application needs to be something more than simple rails integration to include redactor as open source.

wilgoszpl commented 9 years ago

@jaymiejones86 , we decided to downgrade redactor files to latest free-to-use version (8.2.2) . Those files will be included in redactor-rails, but every newest update needs to be removed.

Yes, we will be required to integrate redactor files ourselves (copying files should be enough) - I'll add a note about that to README soon.