License, Hosting and Sponsorship
Here’s a couple non-technical updates about the Orca project. I’ll write about each in more detail, but in short:
- We are adopting a more permissive license.
- We are moving the code repository to github.
- You can now sponsor the development of Orca.
License Change
We initally released our MVP under the AGPLv2 license, with special exceptions allowing app developers to distribute their app under another license.
We agreed with early contributors to change that in favor of a more permissive dual licensing scheme. Orca is now distributed under the MIT license or the Apache License version 2, at your option. This is both simpler and gives more freedom to application developers and contributors, while still giving us some protection against malign use of patents.
Hosting
We moved the repository from gitea to a new github organization. Despite Github-the-company not being great in many ways, it has a number of features that are better than gitea, like github actions, that we’re already using for building Angle, and will have to use even more now that we want to provide binaries of the runtime and user tooling. It also has somewhat better tools for larger scale collaboration. Finally Github has a sponsorship feature, which opens a way of funding the project (see below for more on that!).
Supporting Orca
If you feel like this project is important and want to help me move it forward, you now have the possibility of sponsoring the development of Orca!
I’m being serious about wanting Orca to make a change, and this means working full time on it to ensure swift progress and foster a good ecosystem for app development. You can make that happen by sponsoring me through Github sponsors. All help you can send my way is highly appreciated!
Thanks for reading, and see you soon!