Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>> Sounds great! But why GPL? Are you looking to sell licenses?
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>> GPL is to spread it as far and wide as possible as fast as possible.
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> LGPL?
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> My concern would be, I can't use this toolkit for a closed source
> application if it is GPL.
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> That may be your intent (which I actually don't have a business
> problem with), I was just curious as to your decision.
If it turns out that nobody can release a closed source app, I will
definitely reconsider and look again at LGPL, but I am not convinced you
cannot do so.
If you seek to provide a closed source app that is built upon Andromeda,
you are required to provide the source code to Andromeda itself.
However, your app is not a derivative work in the strict sense because
your code is not mixed in with mine in any sense. You never modify a
file, and your files and mine are actually in separate directories.
I greatly appreciate your asking the question though because I'd like to
make sure that people feel safe with the project. My goal is to provide
the freedoms typically associated with the "plain old GPL", and
certainly not to restrict the creation of closed apps. I just don't
want anybody closing *my* app.
>> For corporate customers, it does not matter much whether you call it
>> a license or something else, some expenditures are made to support
>> the customer's effort and the customer is asked to provide the funds
>> for that. Call it consulting fees, call it licensing, call it
>> training or support, it is all the same thing.
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> O.k. so you are going to charge a corporate customer to allow them to
> get their code their own?
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Only if they want to talk to me :) It is GPL, so anybody can download
it and use it, person, gov, NGO, corp. There is a documentation site
that IMHO is pretty nice and getting better every day. But if you want
my time, that's for sale.