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Razuna 1.4.5 is coming. What’s new?

by on May 29, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Razuna 1.4.5 is coming! We are actually at full throttle here to finish the last touches and will release Razuna 1.4.5 very shortly. Thought, this is another point release and given our history of not holding back new features, we are excited to include the following awesome new or improved features:

Widgets – Share or embed your folders / collections with ease

We get many praises for Razuna, as a matter of fact, many have switched from other systems to manage their assets with Razuna. People love the way we manage assets for them. But people not only want to manage assets within Razuna, they also want to share and collaborate on their assets. For that, you can either setup a user in Razuna and give permission to folders. This would mean they would access Razuna. Another option is to make use of the “shared folder/collection” feature. With a share you can publish your assets outside of Razuna.

As of Razuna 1.4.5 we are introducing Widgets. Widgets can be setup for every folder or collection, you can even create as many widgets as you want for a given folder/collection, since each widget has different settings. Foremost, you can arrange your assets to be shown in the thumbnail grid or as a slideshow. Also, you will have a preview function for each asset and can download each one individually.

There are many good uses for widgets, as a example you can include a widget into your website, blog, create a photo archive and so forth.

Browse subfolders

Coming in line with the release of Widgets, we also enabled browsing trough subfolders in the general folder view, the shared folders and of course within a Widget. Like this, especially in a shared folder/collection or widget, you can share any folder and your users will be able to drill down into all available subfolders.

Add additional versions of an asset

As more and more organizations start to move to Razuna, the need for a “unified view” of an asset was raised. Say, you have different versions of your assets already deployed, on YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Soundcloud or simply want to upload each version of your already converted formats to Razuna. Previously, each upload created a new “asset record”.

With the new “Additional Versions” functionality you can simply point to your existing asset on the net or upload your versions. Doing so, will give you a combined view, of your original asset, any converted formats and and your own versions.

Small Re-Design, Lighter Interface

We have done some small re-design of the Razuna User Interface. The goal was to get rid of the many shades and table lines, in short to bring a “lighter user experience” to the Razuna feeling. But see for yourself.

In the upper image you see the current layout of a thumbnail grid. There is a bold heading with a gray background. Furthermore, there is a line around the whole grid. Since there is already a line around the tab and then having another line around the grid, it just “felt” a lot “gridded”.

The small re-design does away with those double lines and gray headings. You can see that it makes a big different when you have a long list of assets or edit your asset in the combined view.

We think, this eases on the eyes and focuses more on the assets.

Overall new features and improvements

Above we mentioned the most exciting features. Additionally, we have added full XMP support for PDF files (now we write to *ALL* XMP fields), for Administrators we added searching trough log files, developers have a new API call to retrieve information of a single asset, fixed some bugs when Razuna was hooked up to a Amazon S3 account and fixed the uploading tool for the Google Chrome browser.

Overall, there are around 25 request issues that we are fulfilling with Razuna 1.4.5. We are planing to release Razuna 1.4.5 in the coming days. Stay tuned for more updates on Razuna 1.4.5.

How to get Razuna

Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server offering.

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Razuna’s Open Source dual licensing: A quick explanation

by on May 17, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

From time to time, we get questions about our Open Source Digital Asset Management Razuna, that is being dual licensed under the AGPL V3 and a commercial license. In this regard, this post and our Razuna license page should help. So, let us jump right in.

Razuna license model

Razuna is released under a dual license model. Designed to meet the requirements of different users and their needs for distribution and usage we offer Razuna under two flexible licenses.

Razuna for open source projects

If you are developing and distributing Open Source applications under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), or the GNU General Public License (GPL) then you are free to use Razuna under the GNU AGPL License, version 3. The formal terms of the AGPL can be found on the GNU website. Any software that uses code under a AGPL is itself subject to the same AGPL licensing terms.

AGPL is just like GPL, but more onerous. The GPL obligates you to distribute your own precious source code if you distribute binaries that use Razuna. The AGPL goes further, obligating you to make available to everyone your source code if you are using it on a network server for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or as an Application Service Provider (ASP). For example, if you are running Razuna on your server, to provide a SaaS services, you would have to give away all of your source code.

Under the AGPL, you must release the complete source code for the application that is built with Razuna, even if that application is running on a network server for SaaS purposes.

For licensing Razuna under alternate terms, so that you can use it without your own product becoming infected with the obligations of the AGPL, you should contact us to purchase a commercial license. We are also able to provide Razuna under the AGPLv3 license with a FLOSS exception.

When in doubt, keep this principle in mind: Unless you want to have all of the software you write be freely available to everyone, you should consider a commercial license. Further, if our software makes money for you, we would like to be paid too. Hence, our commercial license.

The Razuna Commercial, OEM, VAR, ISV license

If you do not license the source code under the GPL, but still like to include Razuna in your projects then we are able to provide you with a flexible commercial license.

The Commercial License is an agreement with Razuna Ltd. for organizations that do not want to release their application source code. Commercially licensed customers get a commercially supported product with assurances from Razuna Ltd.. Commercially licensed users are also free from the requirement of making their own application Open Source.

Here are some typical examples for a commercial distribution:

  • Selling software that includes Razuna to customers who install the software on their own machines
  • Selling software that requires customers to install Razuna on their own machines
  • Building a hardware system that includes Razuna and selling that hardware system to customers for installation at their own locations.

Specifically:

  • If you include Razuna with an application that is not licensed under the AGPL or GPL-compatible license, you need a commercial license for using Razuna.
  • If you develop and distribute a commercial application and as part of utilizing your application, the end-user must download a copy of Razuna; for each derivative work, you (or, in some cases, your end-user) need a commercial license for Razuna.

AGPL users have no direct legal relationship with Razuna Ltd.. The commercial license, on the other hand, is private license by Razuna Ltd., and provides a direct legal relationship with Razuna Ltd..

Recommendations

  • To all commercial and government organizations, we recommend the commercial license. This frees you from the broad and strict requirements of the AGPL license.
  • To all free software enthusiasts we recommend the AGPL license.
  • To anyone in doubt, we recommend the commercial license.

How to get Razuna

Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server offering.

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A faster and easier way to login to Razuna

by on May 12, 2011 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

We just remodeled our Razuna.com website to offer you a direct login to your Razuna hosted Digital Asset Management Platform.

Instead of entering your subdomain or custom domain for accessing Razuna you can now simply visit razuna.com and enter your eMail on top. This will automatically take you to your installed Razuna.

This login will not work for customers who use the self hosted Razuna or those customers who have a dedicated Razuna cloud server.

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