Railo goes open source on JBoss.org

Yesterday in our keynote at Scotch on the Rocks we announced that Railo, starting from version 3.1 will be open sourced.

The professional version will be melted into the community edition and released under the LGPL2 license. The following restrictions have to be obeyed:

• none

Well I must say at least none. LGPL2 has its restrictions but it is very commercial friendly and will help spread CFML the way it desires.
First of all: The professional version will be melted into the community one and will be called (perhaps) Railo 3.1 community OS. Maybe we'll shorten it to Railo OS. But these things will be up for discussion in our future talks to the community and JBoss.
Anyhow we hope and think that this will have a huge impact on the spreading of CFML in the Java community as well.
We had many positive responses from the community. Even Adam Lehman wrote some notes about it as well. Here's a list of posted reactions:

• Adam Lehman's blog: AdRockNaPhobia
• Neil Middleton's blog
• Andrew Mercer's blog
• Ray Camden's blog
• Sean Corfield's - An Architect's view
• Luis Majano's blog
• Gary Gilbert's blog
• Kai König - in german

We're very excited about the neat future and we will keep you up to date about the upcoming development. If you want to have a look at the keynote with RedHat, just check out this link:
Railo keynote at Scotch on the Rocks.