The author found that supporting rule machine was too difficult given the number of instabilities in the base SmartThings platform. SmartThings has since publicly committed to making the stability of their platform top priority, and has reached out to the author of rule machine and acknowledged publicly here in the forums that the issues users were running into were primarily SmartThings issues. We all hope that SmartThings succeeds in stabilizing the platform and that at that time Bruce will consider returning.
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I think heās gone for good and I predict another Rule engine will take itās place with a GNU license.
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@JZst and @bamarayne
The license is GPLv3, not Apache 2.0 - meaning that it cannot be changed to something else or turned private. Not sure if even I can do it. Itās open source software that has to stay open source. If I am not mistaken, some older versions of RM can be shared, if the license allows it. But then again I may be wrong. But I think the license changed Mar 21st 2016. Anything before that may be available for sharing - any licensing guru around?
I build/test on iOS. I havenāt fired it up on Android yet.
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Not a guru, but I am fascinated (?) with licenses (and hate legal red tape too, ironically).
The Apache 2.0 labeled versions (unless they have clear conflicting instructions labeled somewhere) are certainly āshareableā. I think the grey area is stuff that could be considered copyright outside the files, like the name āRule Machineā and instructions and similar things on the Forum; ā¦ though I think thereās a terms of use somewhere that says everything that is written directly on the Forum is automatically CCANCSA ā¦ Apache 2.0! ā¦
(NB: This is probably old and superseded by SmartThings overall Terms of Use).
https://community.smartthings.com/tos
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@tgauchat I took your advice on choosing the license. I want it to stay free and open source. By the way, GPLv3 does not prohibit asking money for the code, but it will prohibit not providing the source code and there is no restriction on what the buyer can do with said code, effectively rendering any payment ridiculous.
Not āridiculousā at all!
GPL Licensed code is used in for-profit products all the time (legally!) usually by charging for compilation & installation tools, bug and security patching tools, and customer support. Check out RedHat and hundreds of other companiesā¦
Heck, SmartThings is using various OSS in the Hub, etc.
Yeah, I guess the code is not what youād be paying for. Installation and support isā¦
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lol, and how are you predicting this?! ;))
Iām edumacated. And I really appreciate people who give without expecting to receive. I will donate (as I also told Bruce) to anything that saves me time. You are on the right track, keep it going and please lean on this community for support and encouragement. Any time you need it. If I had the time Iād be making a rule engine myself.
PS: thatās what you should call it IMHO. Rule Engine
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I use the old ST schedulerā¦ It sets your schedule perfectly to fire yesterday! Itās a great prediction to when you want to know what is going to happen in the past.
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Rule Engine for the parent app and Piston for the child app?! 
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I say call it āRover.ā Or āBillā or āGeorgeā or anything but something-with-Rule-in-it. Otherwise you will forever be asked questions about code which isnāt yours. Just sayinā.
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The Smartometron 2000?
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The Smartometron 2000!! Yeah! And make it have thousands of useless blinking lights like in the old movies!
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Smartometron 2000 is good. Even has a catchy acronym: S2K. Not to be presumptuous, but Iāve already added Smartometron to my dictionary.
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SMART-O 4000 would be more fun.
how about Jarvis ?
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Well if youāre going in that direction, Iād say go for Smart-A$$ 6000. 
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So SMART-A$$ 6000 for the Parent and DUMB - A$$ 101 for the child?
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I say we call the parent app "2-Monkeys"
and the child app āFootballā
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