[TYPO3-english] Last TYPO3 version without fluid/extbase

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 23-12-2012 16:27, Tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
> Some companies live writing application software to be sold, and they
> must mantain the property and secrecy of the code, for selling it.
> Of course they would adopt a CMS or presentation layer which helps their
> development, but if this CMS forces them to give away the sources for
> free, of course they will prefer to write internally a small CMS or
> adopt a BSD licensed framework, or pay for using a commercial one, which
> will let them live of their work.

You're not forced to give away your work for free. You can create 
extensions, libraries, etc. whatever you want and sell them to your 
customers.
The situation would change if you would use TYPO3 as the base for your 
own product, modify TYPO3, extend it and distribute the whole package as 
your own product.
You can easily avoid this by simply using the TYPO3 distribution and 
separately package your own extensions. TYPO3 has all possibilities to 
modify the behaviour of the core and of existing extensions by using 
services, extensions, hooks, XCLASSes, etc.

You are not forced to distribute your own extensions at all, let alone 
give them away. Everything you upload to TER has to have a GPL license, 
but if you keep an extension to yourself and just sell it to your 
customers that's fine too.

In some cases it's possible to have the development of an extension or a 
modification completely covered by a client project (for example: an 
extension takes you 40 hours to create and your client pays you 40 hours 
for it). In such cases it would be very nice if you shared the result 
with the rest of the world. You're then returning the favour that you 
were able to use the work that everybody put into creating TYPO3.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
TYPO3 Core Team member

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