Heh okay, fair enough. Though I have to say, ethical concerns could be covered in explicit 'guidelines'; not quite as strictly imposed, but then again in my personal opinion the fewer rules imposed on the user the better. If you make a shovel for digging there's only so much you can do to stop some fool from whacking some unfortunate soul in the head with it.
As for selling the software, I think the most important part is selling yourself just as much you sell the app. I *think* that software companies today buy into the people maybe more so than what they have created. After all, there's a reason why most programmers, in spite of the many open and fully functional alternatives available for most things today, choose to make their own 'baby'. For reasons I have yet to go into detail about, I have a feeling you would fit perfectly in with the people at Automattic (Wordpress team). Have you tried approaching them yet? They once attempted to add a wikisoft to their ranks of web apps, but it never gained momentum. I feel like BoltWire could be it :) On Dec 26, 7:12 pm, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote: > Two reasons specifically: first, I wanted to avoid a fork/split of the > project, therefore it does not allow redistribution of the software. I > prefer to keep the community together. Second, as a Christian I had > ethical concerns about the use of this software for immoral purposes. > Neither of these can be prevented by the standard MIT or GPL license. > > There's also the possibility someone may want to purchase BoltWire for > a million bucks, and I could buy a home in the country and retire. Not > likely, but hey, you never know. :) > > Cheers > Dan > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Erlend Sogge Heggen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > May I ask, what made you choose to make a custom license? Standard > > licenses such as MIT or GPL tend to protect your product more > > carefully, as they have been tested through time. It is also easier to > > know whether or not they are compatible with other licenses. It sounds > > to me like you want for your product pretty much what the GPL offers. > > Why make it harder on the end-user by introducing another foreign > > license into the open source mix? > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "BoltWire" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
