> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:57, Stuart Clark <stuart.cl...@jahingo.com> > wrote: >> [I know such information doesn't help for open source projects, but it >> would be interesting to know the level of the monetary/contractual bar >> to >> people wanting to do things officially, and what effect doing so has on >> their products] >> > > > If they did it right then it would be a help (of sorts) to Open Source > projects and everybody would be happy. All that's needed is a website > where there's a form that includes an all import "I agree to the terms > and conditions" tick box and then everyone who uses an open source > project could individually get their own tables. > > This would be pretty much identical to how a lot of Open Source > projects that connect to Web Services that need a developer API key > work. >
Equally depending on any costs/restrictions a company could offer a closed binary plugin for some OS projects [depending on licensing restrictions on plugins] which can be sold to the public - for example how some non-open audio/video codecs are. But that of course would only work if the costs were reasonable (it isn't going to work if it would cost £1 million a year as the market for OS sales would never cover that cost) and the restrictions are compatible (if the license for the tables/info has requirements which would be impossible to implement as a plugin for video player X) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
