OpenAscent

[pachuco55]

Just heard of this, wanted to share to those who haven't heard...

OpenAscent

Hopefully this goes well...

Quote from their site, written by Trelorn:

OpenAscent is an attempt by myself to save Ascent properly, in the spirit of open source development.

Although many of the original developers have left (Burlex, namely), OpenAscent will be a community-driven port of Ascent. Unlike other projects with similar goals, OpenAscent has my official blessing as a former member of the Ascent developer team (and Burlex's ok). In addition, OpenAscent actually has someone who knows fluent C++ in charge.

How will OpenAscent differ from Ascent? Unlike Ascent, OpenAscent will have no "project leader." I will simply be organizing things and committing a few bug fixes. From there, the community must develop it's emulator. OpenAscent has none of the benefits of the private version of Ascent lead by Burlex, Summit.

OpenAscent will also be utilizing a different license than Ascent, since the goals of the Affero license were not fully met. Instead, we will be using the Creative Commons Non-commercial and no-derivative license. What this means is that you cannot take any of the OpenAscent work and port it to your own emulator, say, vbWoW. It also means you cannot use our software to run a business. It does not, however, forbid accepting donations for running the software. A full version of the license is available here.

With that said, enjoy.

Sounds good.

[arigity]

yup yup everyones there.

[Ömen]

thank god , i'll try and help out these guys a lil with some patches

[pachuco55]

yup yup everyones there.

except of course.... burlex! :evil_laugh:

[Ickybad]

And some of their most valuable people left as well witch is fail on that part so how long you think this will last? I'll give it about a month or 2. Anyways my team is already makign a repack with the test core they made.

[arigity]

they have trelorn aceindy and zack, jajcer is likely to join them shortly and several other familiar faces are there. in time i imagine the other devs of ascent will migrate over aswell (the few that are left)

[Ickybad]

Yes and is burlex no longer on leave and he is gone for good is what i want to know. I didn't think that this would happen but i guess it did.

[SectorSeven]

Burlex is out partying. Seriously.
Enjoying life.

It will last until Burlex gets back because 3 of Ascent's old devs are leaders.

[arigity]

burlex will continue to work on private server emulation his new project summit (at least i think its called that O.o) is ascent but in closed source form. handing out bins monthly apparently.

[LJN]

So this is still ascent its just still being carryed out as a open source?

[arigity]

yeah, only real difference is a slight name change and the lack of burlex now. although i imagine if the project is successful he will return eventually.

[LJN]

Ok awesome

[wside420]

Their is hope! yay!