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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

On 20-04-13 16:25, Nyamul Hassan wrote:
> Is there any indication from the current devs in charge to gradually 
> phase out the freely available downloads and move to a paid model? It 
> would be very helpful to know beforehand.

Hi,

there is no indication to that at all. All the code is freely available. 
The repositories of OpenERP past and future releases are open on 
Launchpad, so that the development can be followed from day to day. 
Daily rebuilt installers are provided by OpenERP SA on their website.

OpenERP is still governed by a single commercial entity and no other 
party has access to the official branches. The future development 
roadmap is not public (if it exists) and is not discussed with the 
community. But that does not change the fact that all the code is open 
under the AGPL-3 license. Many tools and helper scripts are in various 
Launchpad projects under the same license as well.

Note that migration between major releases of OpenERP is not supported 
without a support contract. Community project for that here: 
https://launchpad.net/openupgrade-server, but it lags quite a bit on the 
official releases.

Cheers,
Stefan.


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