I have to agree with Jookia on this. I don't think this issue concerns nix.
To be honest I'm not even sure there's an issue here. I've never heard of something called "free open-source that costs money". The first part negates the second. Ardour was mentioned but I can't find a single reference to a "required donation" on their website: https://ardour.org . The wiki is the first page with any $ on it. There they mention a subscription model and promise "unlimited updates". To me this only makes sense if you are using the binary releases not if building from source. https://www.pymol.org/ is identical in that sense. Building from source implies no cost. So in short, as long as the code is truly free and open-source, whatever monetization system is used by the project (donationware, niceware, binaryware ...), it's the developers responsibility to figure out how they ask their users for money. R Jookia wrote on 07/07/2016 12:35 AM: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:10:41AM +0200, Profpatsch wrote: >> No, but we should strife to enable developers however we can. > > Could we perhaps find a way to do this without requiring the user to lie about > paying for something just to install something they don't need to pay for? > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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