Hello, all, Adam Theo here.
About a year ago I released a SMTP Transport (written in Perl) for
Jabberd 1.4 <http://theoretic-smtp.jabberstudio.org>. It was released
under what I called a "Ransom License", using another project I was
developing at the time called (naturally) "Ransom"
<http://www.theoretic.com/?Ransom>.
Ransom is a software publishing model where the rights to the source
code remain restricted until a set amount of money is collected or a set
date passes, at which point the code is freed.
The JabberSMTP experiment failed (although I learned alot of useful
information from it) and was finally freed under the GPL & JOSL. I
tucked Ransom away and forgot about it for half a year. But at the
prompting of Brian Shire of Tekrat Labs <http://www.tekrat.com>, I've
found the interest and energy to bring back Ransom and make sure it is
finally matured as a viable option to publishing open source software.
So I'm now proud to announce that the Ransom model is back under
development, and hopefully it will fund many new Jabber projects. If you
are interested in finding ways to get paid for your open source work,
please sign up for the Ransom mailing list
<http://mailman.autopackage.org/mailman/listinfo/ransom> and participate
in its development. I'm hoping for Jabber to be a great training ground
for this project.
Thanks for your time ;-)
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