Q: Is CARA continued to be developed and maintained?
A: Definitly yes. There are no plans to cease development. Quite the contrary is true (see here). The intention is not to implement every imaginable feature in CARA, but to provide a robust platform, where other community members can independently implement and maintain their own ideas and algorithms (as it happens e.g. with Autolink).
 

Q: Will CARA remain free also in future?
A: Yes, there are no intentions at all to change that. CARA is a scientific project with no commercial goals, though the responsibles on their own of course participate in commercial projects, and there is also no obligation for people who write their own applications on top of CARA/Lua to deploy them for free.
And of course nobody objects if you want to make a donation ;-)
 

Q: Have the rights of CARA really been vested in Bruker?
A: No, not at all. The ownership of CARA hasn't changed since it's inception and there are no plans to do so. CARA continues to be developed and supported by the same people and in cooperation with the same scientific groups. Bruker has been granted the permission (for free, without any obligation) to deploy CARA toghether with their software TopSpin, for the convenience of users who want to make use of e.g. the TopSpin-Autolink integration.