On 10/03/2014 12:57 PM, Greg wrote:
Dear Natanael,
Call up Red Hat and ask them about how they manage their open source
Linux distribution.
Oh, I am very familiar with the Red Hat model, and I respect it
greatly, and am in fact pursuing something similar.
Red Hat works because it is complicated, technical infrastructure
software that requires a great deal of support, custom solutions, etc.
That is not the market Espionage finds itself in, and so I cannot use
their business model for it.
You could also do a 3-clause BSD license for the library (i.e., business
logic), then separate out the GUI part and put whatever license you want
on the bundle. You could even do deterministic builds of the library so
that anyone can check the library inside the bundle against what they
themselves can compile. That's not ideal, but it's certainly better
than restricting access to the entire source. (And of course if you
want to continue to do restricted access to the GUI code, that'd be even
better.)
What's more, any free software ideologue has the ability to try their
hand at making an alternative GUI that's more user-friendly than the one
you get paid directly by users to produce. (Though judging from the
history and ethos of free software usability I'd say that's quite
unlikely to happen.)
-Jonathan
Kind regards,
Greg Slepak
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On Oct 2, 2014, at 10:44 PM, Natanael <natanae...@gmail.com
<mailto:natanae...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Greg <g...@kinostudios.com
<mailto:g...@kinostudios.com>> wrote:
Also, you convince me how to keep providing high quality software and
support while simultaneously making Espionage completely free and open
source and I will do it in a flash.
Call up Red Hat and ask them about how they manage their open source
Linux distribution.
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