New Forum Software

[J Greig]

Both are basically the same, except the free software movement puts more emphasis on the freedom to modify and redistribute the code. For example, GNU GPL would be more "free" than MIT licence, because MIT license does not enforce copyleft and thus someone can develop closed-source software based on the code.

The essential difference, slightly oversimplified, is that Free Software generally requires that, if you modify and/or incorporate it into another body of work, the entire result must also be distributed as Free Software, and you are forbidden to further restrict the ability of any "downstream" users from modifying, using, or redistributing the software with the same rights that were given to you.

Hope that helps.

 

[Azareal]

It's currently a free open source software. I have no plans to make it paid.

I'm currently increasing the performance by going crazy with the caching (configurable with settings) and I'm also looking into ways to introduce some multi-threading into the software in order to enhance the performance further.

 

[Pvcomputers]

I find mybb best easy to work with while phpbb just isn't practically with mods. I remember someone wanted created his own paid forum software. But forgotten the name and not sure if it really got off the ground. But what I have seen in the pass several years with a increase of all sorts of forum software. I used remember smf, proboards, phpbb dating back to 2007.