Ok, I try a (long) short on the thread responses:
0) whatever closed/sewing on infringement/fs license solution, there
could be unlikely some robberies, also ideas themselves cannot be
copyrighted and you will experience clones if there is a market.
1) As I said, VIM /is a charity-ware/ which /can also be distributed
as GPL/ an I'm not aware of any GPL distribution nor any robbery,
while only a few persons afford (volunteer basis). And if I red right
that last point is not an issue for you.
2) As another post said, /you can enforce some terms with GPLv3/.
3) As another post said /it's up to you/ to make publicity of how your
software can helps parents/children, /especially at no cost/ (I add
some tips):
* I expect there are numerous non-profit associations in favor of
that persons: post on their mailing-lists, and please contacts their
leaders
* I expect there are medical associations or groups of
medicine/doctors on that => same action
* Numerous free software websites/blogs/... will rely a convenient
article, also numerous governments raises Free Software as a good or a
better solution (starting from South America) and actively promote it.
* In addition, in order to solve the "narrow bandwith problem" (e.g.
in Africa) and the "robbery problem" I pointed on Dia, offer yourself
for a few (copying, shipping) hard copies (cdrom, or DVD) of your
software on as numerous as you can commercial sites such as amazon,
e-bay, priceminister, etc, despite their evil philosophy for most.
** Do not forget to add a "free download URL" such as
savannah.nongnu.org (which will host you for free in an ethical way,
with a project site, a static web site, a download area and a
concurrent version system (CVS, SVN, ...) if you choose a convenient
license and proof you have correct license notices/README/COPYING in
sources) and text about your goal in announces.
** Ask permission to medical associations (after they
evaluated) to publish snippets of their critics.
** Also correctly describe your software in announces with
convenient generic keywords on disabilities you want fight on.
* If a distributed database would help, then use affero-GPLv3 for
server/database-side -- there are also Free data licenses for
databases, or if you need for enforcements from GPLv3 /on both end
user+server code as same licence/ which are not in A-GPL, post here
and write to (fsf legal?) as should be an issue which can be solved in
the future (while data(base) license *must* stay of scope of any free
software license).
** unfortunately I have no idea of how to fund hosting, except
the VIM method (ask for help outside license, hope for doctors or
parents themselves will afford /just a little/: suggest an amount such
as "you can help for that project to stay alive: just donate from
1$/£/€ to at most 12$ a year by (several means, some evils but
well-known), also offer for publicity on large donations (at least
drug laboratories /will/ afford), even for little ones (see credits in
the "Blender" movies)".
I think we can't help you more than pointing you that kind of tips.
Best regards,
TSFH
Hi Thomas
Thanks so much for taking the time to put together this detailed email.
This will take some time to analyze. I really appreciate your time-Patrick
