Future plans for this fork

[UYTR5]

Again, nice work on Thaw, it's great to see how active the project has been recently.
Quick question out of curiosity: do you have any plans for the long-term direction of this fork (e.g. paid distribution), just so the community knows what to expect going forward?
Thanks!

[rtuszik]

Both the original Ice, as well as the fork source code are under GPLv3. That essentially makes relicensing to closed source impossible...

[stonerl]

As @rtuszik said. Thaw is licensed under GPLv3. The only thing I could legally do is to only provide binaries to people who pay. But that is something I will NOT do.

I will mention my Sponsor page here on GitHub with every release and hope that people see value in my work and support me.

[stonerl]

Oh, and on an additional note. For now, as stated in the README.md, I will primarily focus on bug-fixing. If a new feature is necessary to fix a bug I might implement it, but I want to get Thaw stable and usable for all users first and foremost.

[miss4chewN8]

Hi @stonerl, thanks for all your relentless efforts. I would understand if you wanted to stop working on #1 someday but if you haven't and somehow manage to fix it, could you tag me somehow so that I can celebrate and finally use Thaw full time? Thanks again.

You are right, in the meantime I will have to use Ice as is, because I really don't want to upgrade to Tahoe given its many issues. But let's hope that someone can point out the reason once this gets enough traction.

[stonerl]

I'll see what I can do here since some if the issues in #1 also bleed into Tahoe, so once I figure that out I think there will be a solution. I also hope someone else can dig into this and finds a what is gong on here.

Still thank you for you understanding and patience.