Team Eiffel

The Eiffel landscape has changed forever, following this morning's announcement that EiffelStudio has moved to a dual-licensing model. ISE says:

Eiffel Software's Dual Licensing model is based on the principle of fair exchange. Users who write commercial proprietary software must purchase the corresponding licenses and may freely choose how to distribute their software. Users who donate their source code to the Open Source community can use the Open Source version and must distribute their software under the same license.

A quick browse of the sources shows that the compiler and C runtime are licensed under the GPL v2 whilst the Eiffel libraries (kernel and application) are licensed under the GPL-compatible Eiffel Forum License v2.

Here are some links of interest:

• Wiki main page
• Builds for Windows and Linux
• Source Code Repository (subversion)
• Source Code Repository browser (websvn)
• Compiling EiffelStudio
• Mailing lists