That is unfortunate - is there any way to get the original author to change his mind (I'm guessing they reached out in a huff - which is understandable if this came up unexpectedly)? It seems unfortunate effort to rewrite something, and from an Omnibase perspective, I can't imagine there is sustainable money to be made from future sales of the product (in a world of so many databases more widely available), however offering services on top (which I'm sure the original author is in the best place to do) would seem like a better aim instead of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Of course he is the one that can ultimately make the call, but worth double checking I would say. Tim On Mon, 8 Aug 2022, at 2:18 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
To all Omnibase and Monibase users.
It turned out that neither of those are open source. The author of the database contacted me clarifying the situation that he has the copyright and never released something open source. This means that I will remove the Omnibase repositories in few weeks from
https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/MoniBase
and
https://github.com/pharo-nosql/OmniBase
I'm very sorry about that but someone just took the code 9 years before, copied it on github and put illegally an MIT license to the repository. We only want free software in our repositories and hence the above will go away.
As we see it essential to have a good OO database in pharo we will see how much effort it will be build a small and simple OO database that can replace Omnibase.
regards,
Norbert