On 07/07/16 13:15, Profpatsch wrote: > On 16-07-07 01:18am, Renato Alves wrote: >> 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. > > That is incorrect. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
First of all, I've nothing against monetizing free open-source software. But about my previous point I think we are talking about different things here. What I meant is: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DoesTheGPLAllowRequireFee Any financial support cannot be mandatory. >> 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. Notice that I used "required" here. > https://ardour.org/download.html > “Buy”, “Subscribe”, ”Free Demo” are quite clear in my opinion. > See also the first FAQ directy under the table. I missed the download page. I browsed the rest of the website though, including the wiki. > If you want another example: > http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/download.php Seems like a similar model to the pymol example I linked. With a remark that PyMOL has a custom open-source license. >> 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. > > This toxic idea is the reason free software is where it is today. > But I digress. It's not so much of a toxic idea as it is something granted by most open-source licenses. It's not an easy problem. Monetizing the binary releases is a popular solution but it's also quite tricky as someone else could also provide them for free without any legal infringement. Renato
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