[cc-licenses] open source non commercial license
Emerson Clarke
emerson.clarke at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 05:30:02 EST 2007
Thanks everyone for you thoughts and your input... its been an
enlightening discussion.
I have decided to release my work initially under the GPL, which i
will probably change to some form of dual license or BSD style license
later on.
So in the last two days ive built a website and cleaned up 250,000
lines of code to get a release out before the end of the week :)
For those who are interested you can check it out here:
http://reasoning.info/examples.htm
And you can download it here:
http://reasoning.info/download.htm
Emerson
On 2/9/07, Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-02 at 18:47 +0000, Emerson Clarke wrote:
>
> > How do you avoid the situation where no one will use your library for
> > risk of their project becoming a clutter of licensing restrictions and
> > yet, as an individual, still make money from software ?
>
> There are about a million ways to make money from producing free
> software.
>
> * Offer consulting for installation and configuration
> * User training and documentation
> * Write and sell a book
> * Custom extensions, plugins, or etc. for particular uses
> * Ask for donations
> * Offer a commercial license with no source-code redistribution
> requirement for derivatives
> * Sell the media (installation CDs or DVDs)
> * Sell schwag with the logo on it
> * Apply for government or foundation grants
> * Provide software as a service (Web service, other service)
>
> None of them are quite so easy as selling licenses for software, but
> they all benefit immensely from broad distribution of Free Software.
>
> Probably the biggest motivation to release a work as Free Software is
> this: if you don't, someone else will release a program that's
> equivalent and IS Free Software, and then your proprietary software
> sales plummet. The Free economy favours those who give their stuff away
> soonest.
>
> -Evan
>
>
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