As discussed in the blog entry, it’‘s going to take us several weeks to get the code ready for release. This change in the license definitely won’‘t affect the release schedule in a negative way – in fact, we’'re hopeful that the community will be able to help get lots of important features done more quickly such as language translastions.
Once all the Spark source code is available, you’‘d be able to edit the source to do this type of thing yourself. However, it still wouldn’‘t be very easy! That’‘s why we created the Spark skinning service. It’'s an in-expensive way to customize the Spark branding. The service also does all the work of keeping the branding up to date with the latest software releases. Check it out at http://www.jivesoftware.com/skin.
Now that Wildfire 3.0 was released at the end of last week, we can turn our full attention to making more progress on the Open Source Spark release. One good bit of news, though – one of the commercial libraries that we thought we’'d have to remove for the Open Source version may let us use it for free in the Open Source release. That will definitely decrease the amount of work left to do.