Andreas Kuckartz well defend the cause ! :) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [iks-community] Aloha Editor is out. Date: 16 Jul 2010 09:48:04 +0200 From: "Andreas Kuckartz" <a.kucka...@ping.de> To: iks-commun...@iks-project.eu
Haymo wrote: > AGPL in our point of view is the only way for a small > company to distribute a self founded front-end framework > with no possibility to up-sell a commercial admin add-on. I am well aware of the difficulties to earn money with Open Source. While a lot of experience has been gathered and scientific work has been carried out in this area it still is a learning process. Some of the different kinds of implications of a license on the future are not necessarily obvious from the beginning. One point is that developers have to spend time to think about the consequences of using a software component distributed under a specific license. Some questions which arise immediately: What does the license imply for plugins? Do they have to be distributed under the same license? Who decides? Can a community of developers be grown which helps to improve and enhance the software when such improvements in the end will be sold by a single different company? There is an amount of inquality here which might (not necessarily will) prevent people from joining such a community. > PS: After the hard work the last month I think > I deserved some rest. I'll bee on a sailing trip next > week and not answer to the mailinglist ;-) Sure, have fun! Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ iks-community mailing list iks-commun...@iks-project.eu http://lists.iks-project.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/iks-community --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lenya.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lenya.apache.org
