This is probably a good thing for Puppet. If the want to drive adoption of their software in the enterprise, it's better to switch to a more permissive license than the somewhat Idealistic GPL. It will make corporate legal departments more comfortable with the idea of using Puppet.
which has no reference to the open source edition.
The next place I check is "Community" since that's often where "Community Editions" live. No reference on any of those pages to the development of the core product, only add-ons.
If I click yet a third download link, in the secondary navigation, I get a nearly-identical form:
which has no reference to the fact that it's the open-source version I'm downloading. If I scroll ALL the way down to the bottom, I see a link to the source on Github.
There is only one mention of the word GPL on the main Puppet site, and that's in a blog post from a few days ago announcing the license switch.
I stand my my assertion that the OSS product is very well hidden.
It's a handy wrapper around puppet that lets you go from bare server to fully deployed Rails app with one config file, two commands, and about 10 minutes of automated package installs.
Unless you particularly need the absolutely latest version (or further up-to-date, the bleeding edge development version) then
aptitude install puppet
(or the yum equivalent, or what-ever your chosen OS setup's package management is based on) should do the trick and you'll get security updates along with your usual update process and library dependencies (if you are missing any) will be handled for you.
you should work on your about page. Do a five minute usability test and ask five random people what puppet does. Hint: The only clue is hidden in the book ad at the very end of the page.
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 80.2 ms ] threadWhat the hell are you talking about, that was linked right off their homepage as "Download". Can't really be any less hidden than that.
http://info.puppetlabs.com/download
Then I have to click a link at the bottom to here:
http://info.puppetlabs.com/register-download
Then I have to scroll to the bottom to skip registration and get to the page you linked.
I tried clicking two different download links on the home page:
https://img.skitch.com/20110503-pa1axqcg8njxqc4t4gcd756j16.j...
Both of which take you to this form:
https://img.skitch.com/20110503-e8a87jdr5ns9asabt1yyyn2jib.j...
which has no reference to the open source edition.
The next place I check is "Community" since that's often where "Community Editions" live. No reference on any of those pages to the development of the core product, only add-ons.
If I click yet a third download link, in the secondary navigation, I get a nearly-identical form:
https://img.skitch.com/20110503-j37g25rkatu2r626ykt2xp3jqp.j...
Which says I can only download "related Puppet components".
Which takes me to yet another form:
https://img.skitch.com/20110503-gxtt1bg614t23gqnqnhxhans3y.j...
With a no-registration-required link buried at the bottom.
Which takes me to the aforementioned "Download" page:
https://img.skitch.com/20110503-fnshtrwdmmd7xkfnm2gk1xsriy.j...
which has no reference to the fact that it's the open-source version I'm downloading. If I scroll ALL the way down to the bottom, I see a link to the source on Github.
There is only one mention of the word GPL on the main Puppet site, and that's in a blog post from a few days ago announcing the license switch.
I stand my my assertion that the OSS product is very well hidden.
It's a handy wrapper around puppet that lets you go from bare server to fully deployed Rails app with one config file, two commands, and about 10 minutes of automated package installs.