Can I use Gaia Framework in my projects?

thanks for the info teamtunez.

ah! so as i thought you can`t inlcude the extension… makes it hard to use here. He should do what greensock does, create a corperate licence.

*YW dSKY

because it would just lead to endless support questions. Unfortunately a lot of people do not read.

I see your point but at the same time I think any really well structured file on FD requires support to some degree. In any case I intend on using it in future projects for FD it is a huge time saver and the deeplinking and SEO capabilities are worth any amount of support you’d have to give to put out such a well structured file.

on a side note I think a forum for gaia users on flashden to compare notes would be killer. Peace, Luciano

? people don’t need to have the extension it is just a tool to generate .fla files and actionscript files you should make a template that can use the files that you created for all kind of pages (like a general html page that can be reused a general photoalbum that can ben reused) no need to install the component

? people don’t need to have the extension it is just a tool to generate .fla files and actionscript files you should make a template that can use the files that you created for all kind of pages (like a general html page that can be reused a general photoalbum that can ben reused) no need to install the component

Hi
After FlashDen entering in contact with us about the Gaia Framework we’ve decided to share our view and position about this issue with the FlashDen community.

There is no license to use Gaia Framework, you just access the Gaia Framework and download one of the versions for free. What you are obliged to do is leave the identification text inside the classes supplied by Gaia, which we have done.

About giving support to Gaia Framework.
We’re very specific in the product description and in the support manual of the Pro Xml v1 that the template package is restricted to the sections included there and that you don’t need Gaia Framework to edit those sections, just need to have some knowledge on Flash.
We also refer that, if you want to add new sections to the template, you can try to do it, by using Gaia Framework or not, it’s a buyer’s choice. As you may understand, we’re not responsible for what buyers want to add to the template but for what is inside the template and so, we base our support on the included features.
To meet our final conclusion, we don’t think Gaia Framework support should pass by us for the reasons demonstrated before and also because we don’t have control on an application we haven’t developed.

We have decided to develop this template with Gaia Framework because we believe it is a good structure for our applications and decided then to explore those capacities in a big community website like FlashDen. Nevertheless, this is a very normal Flash website which users can customize just by simple Flash edition, not needing Gaia at all.

Thanks for your understanding,
Triworks.net team

Hi everyone!

First off, I’m happy to see that you are trusting Gaia as a solid foundation to build upon. To be clear, the license change is to prevent people from selling the Gaia Framework itself, not works derived from it, as what is happening on FlashDen. I may have to change the license again to restrict that properly, but it is not my intention to negatively impact your ability to make money using Gaia as a foundation.

While not part of the license agreement, it is beneficial to include all of the files that Gaia generates, including the project.gaia (and prior to 3, gaia.xml) files.

Primarily, it makes your projects compatible with the Gaia panel, which is important if users want to add pages or do other Gaia-centric actions, such as byte accurate preloading, testing projects, etc.. Also, the version of Gaia you used when you released your package can easily be updated to the latest version. Without the Gaia project files, the panel cannot import those projects, and therefore your customers cannot use the tool built around the underlying framework.

If you’re going to use Gaia as a foundation, considering how much time Gaia saves you and how much it enables you to generate income for yourself here, I would appreciate your inclusion of the Gaia project files in that it may result in Gaia panel donations for me. Your customers also have a support forum dedicated to the underlying technology your products are built upon, which is a benefit to you, as well.

Just so you’re aware, various FlashDen customers have been emailing me directly and sending me PMs on the forum about specific code built on top of Gaia in your packages, and I cannot provide support for them on code I did not write. If you could provide your contact information for support, that would help them get the help they need from the person who can help the most, you.

Thanks again for your support of Gaia!

Sincerely, Steven Sacks, author Gaia Framework

One more thing, it would be great if you could update your packages to the latest version of Gaia (3.1.0 at the time of this posting) if they are using Gaia 3.x or above. Packages using 2.5 and prior are fine to leave as is.

Steven, Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and clarify all these issues. As a full supporter(and donator;) ) of Gaia, I can honestly say I am quite delighted in the ability to use the framework with upcomming projects for Envato. Looking forward to 3.2;)...lol..just kidding, take a rest. Many Thanks and Continued Success, Luciano