After a break, work is now under way on the next version of PHPFusion. v6.02 will not only contain new features and bug fixes, as it is our intention to switch to a more suitable license. We plan to use an alternative GPL license entitled AGPL which will provide us with more freedom in regards of how we handle copyright display and more importantly, copyright infringement, which is a growing problem that needs to stop. Be assured that we are committed to open-source development, but when people start walking away with our work it becomes very frustrating.
PHPFusion will remain open-source, will still be a free product, but we may re-introduce a fixed fee for copyright removal mostly to cover increasing hosting costs and other financial out goings. I'm not interested in profit, but we will do whatever it takes to protect the integrity of PHPFusion.
v6.02 is unlikely to arrive this year, there are many areas we want to further improve and these will take time to complete. One of our main emphasis will be on dropping our reliance on register globals. We also intend to completely rewrite the forum system to provide much requested new features. As always new code will be committed to the CVS so keen developers can keep an eye on any changes.
Feature requests are now being considered, so if you have any ideas or requests, now is the time to speak up. Look out for v6.02 early next year!
