As reported by Ryzom WarCry, Nevrax Studios--maker of Ryzom and Ryzom Ring--has announced that it will shortly cease to exist as a corporate entity. Negotiations are under way with companies interested in taking up Ryzom's reins, though representatives of Nevrax have said that they will continue to keep Ryzom operational, with some features such as account upgrades disabled during the transition period.

A group of former Nevrax employees have started a "Free Ryzom" campaign, aimed at purchasing the rights to the code and servers of Ryzom, making it Open Source and running it themselves (as reported here).

Thanks to Zie for covering this.