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Hi,

I have had to briefly suspend subscriptions due to a script error. It will be up and running again as soon as I can sort out the problem.

Ryan.

Hi,

As you may have noticed, the JCE site has moved to a new url. Please update your bookmarks and whatnot. If you use the old url, you will be redirected to this one.

 

Registered users may notice the new 'Members' module in the right menu. This is part of the new subscription system for the JCE Member area. Although you can subscribe now (the cost is $20 for a 1 Year subscription), there is not much available for Members only yet. If you do subscribe before the release of JCE 1.1 however, you subscription will be extended by the time period  between your subscription start date and the JCE 1.1 release date.

 

I have a lot of things that I would like to offer Members, excluding a set of dedicated forums and better support. some of the planned goodies include:

 

  • A PDF 'User Guide' for JCE in 3 part - 'Installation and Setup, Plugins and Using JCE'.
  • Advanced versions of some of the Plugins. These will be renamed to 'Member Edition' versions eg: Image Manager 1.1 ME. These include:
  • Image Manager ME - with resizing, thumbnailing, popups and possibly an Image Editor.
  • Media Manager ME - with MP3 and FLV support through Flash players, plus support for Flash variables.
  • Template Manager
  • Caption plugin
  • Also the possibility of a File Manager version with zip support.
  • More tutorials, including more Flash tutorials.


Thanks

Ryan.

Thank you to everyone for your amazing support.

In the next couple of weeks I will be implementing a site membership system, where for $20, you can sign up for a one year JCE Site membership, which will give you access to special forums (that are given priority over all others), tutorials, documentation and advanced plugins for the JCE system.

Payment will be made through 2Checkout.com, and activation will be instant (just building the little component and module that makes this happen!).

Non-members will still have access to the core JCE system , the Editor Mambot and Component, as well as a selection of basic plugins. These plugins will include the Image Manager Lite, File Manager and a 'Lite' version of the Media Manager (basically as it is now, but without FLV and MP3 support that the advanced version will have), as well as the Advanced Link plugin.

Members will get the full Image Manager, with resizing, thumbnailing and popups, with an Image Editor to be included in the near future, a Media Manager with FLV and MP3 support, provided through custom built Flash players, the Caption plugin and the Template Manager.

I hope to release a little video soon showing off some of the new 'Manager' features, such as file and folder sorting and searching of the file list, whilst simultaneosuly showing you the FLV player I have built for the Media Manager.

Thanks

Ryan.

Well, it would seem that my decision to release JCE under a new licence was premature, and was done without proper research.

For a start, Creative Comons licences are not appropriate for software, and are incompatible with GPL licences.
A commercial variant of JCE would be okay if TinyMCE was the only library included, as this is released unde the LGPL licence, which makes exceptions for commercial software. Other included libraries and scripts (phpThumb, getId3 and the webfx Selectable Elements script) are released under GPL, which complicates everything, as the licence requires JCE to also be released under GPL or a similar compatible licence.

This sort of sucks.

So, I guess my options are:

Continue to release JCE as GPL or LGPL, but slow down the development. The amount of time and effort put into JCE with no financial return is becoming less and less appealing.

Provide two identical versions of JCE, both licenced under GPL, but one for sale and one for free, in the hope that commercial users of JCE would 'buy' the one.

Ryan.

Hi,

As of version 1.1, JCE will be released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence, which will mean that JCE will no longer br free for commercial use. A licence or permission for commercial use will be available for purchase for between $10 and $15 (I haven't decided on a price yet), and will be valid for the life of JCE (that is from version 1.1 onwards) for a single instance of JCE.

Version 1.1 should be available in the next couple of weeks, and includes a lot of new stuff, including the latest update of TinyMCE, 2.0.6.1, a spellchecker, sorting and searching for the File, Image and Media Managers, as well as Flash FLV and MP3 players. Flash files will also be able to accept parameters.

I apologise for taking so long to release the next version of JCE, but I have been very busy lately, as well as learning ActionScript and rebuilding a whole lot of the JCE code.

Thanks

Ryan

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