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I proudly announce the release of my modular framework now under the zLib license. I finally decided to change to a open source license so that all of you can use it. I also finished the documentation of the core elements and made an short movie about the main features of modular.

So I hope you can use it as I do in many of my projects…

In the last weeks I was thinking about open sourcing my modular framework. So far I kept it closed source and got some money if somebody used it in commercial projects. But I’m not very happy with this solution as it costs quite an effort to use a commercial framework.

That why I though it would be better to distribute it for free and open source.  My major problem is that I spent many hours in developing modular and earning some money to redeem would be great. So to help me making a decision I made my own list of advantages for going open source;

Advantages:

• everybody can use it for free.
• can use open source platforms for advertising.
• other programmers may join the development.
• higher possibility for viral marketing without to much effort.
• same level with other open source frameworks. No “why should I paid for this” questions.
• ?maybe? get some money by donations
• possibility to sell commercial modules to companies.

I’m wondering if there is somebody with experience with donations? Does this really work? Or maybe other inputs for changing to open source? Just let me know…

Right now i am working on the next release of my modular framework. The main change is in the terminology as there were too many Module* names which made it a bit confusing. But there are also some nice new features like a clean Font registration and a new singleton flag to reuse modules instead of rebuilding them in every page. Its now also possible to use modular in your own application in its own container sprite.

If somebody can’t wait to see the new version you can contact my for a pre-release version. Otherwise I will announce here the new release. Stay tuned.

Please have a look at our new project that is online now: http://www.drucklive.ch.

You can order canvas and in a few days wallpapers of your own pictures. It is made with away3d for the 3d preview of the room and the modular framework for the website architecture.