Here are my thoughts on balancing the reality of balancing external, real world expenses (FIPS certification!) with the objective of having a great FOSS crypto-library
Commercial license: Price: About USD 100 to 500 (or equivalent currently in developers' country for, say, 50 cups of Starbucks coffee) Conditions: 1) Usage of FIPS-140-2 certified binaries AND 2) released within the last 12 months AND 3) for a activity presently generating revenue or an activity directly supporting previously mentioned revenue-generating activity Scope: Enterprise level license with free upgrades for 3 years (so if it's one major server app or a tiny desktop background utility over 5000 PCs - one size fits all) Community license: Price: Donate Conditions: If doesn't match conditions of commercial license Scope: Per project The reason I suggest this is because in corporate America (perhaps elsewhere too), it's harder to file an expense report under "donations". It works only if everyone in the purchase authorization chain "gets" FOSS donations. On the other hand, everyone understands "software licensing" as its usually a separate line item in the accounting books and a 3 figured license, for security software, in revenue activities, won't ever be questioned. I realize there are *many* ways to slice this, but as a non-profit, that would be my $0.02 so you guys can focus more on the technology and certification than fund-raising. Cheers Sid -----Original Message----- From: David Hook [mailto:d...@autochthonous.org] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:39 PM To: dev-crypto-csharp@bouncycastle.org Subject: [dev-crypto-csharp] latest BC news Hi all, Just a quick update on where the fundraising is going. First, I'd like to thank everyone who has donated to date. I think I should also mention we are off to a bit of a slow start. You can find the latest details of where we are at in our latest slashdot submission: http://slashdot.org/submission/3188511/ask-slashdot-cryptographers-crowdfund ing-and-cluelessness Feel free to add a comment or a suggestion if you wish, we'll be following the thread and endeavouring to reply to any questions that come up. It is also a much better place for this discussion than the mailing lists. Feel free to vote the story up - as the tale describes, we can do with all the help we can get! I'll report on the progress of the "adventure" next week. Regards, David
