2011/12/5 Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>: > On 5 December 2011 15:43, Toby Howard <toby.how...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: >> On 05/12/2011 15:22, Carnė Draug wrote:
>>> Of course, we see releasing the GPC library under a free software >>> license as the ideal solution, and if that ever happens we will >>> gladly accept the package back in the project. There's also the >>> option to dual-license GPC (GPL for everyone, alternative license >>> to anyone who wants to lock it up) would probably allow you to >>> keep your existing business model while making GPC free. FFTW and >>> Qt are two examples of popular free commercial software that have >>> followed this route. >> Hi Carnė, thanks for letting me know. We have no plans to change >> the GPC licencing arrangments. Could I try one more time to suggest that you reconsider? I am guessing you are forbidding commercial use because you don't want people someone else to make money off it while you don't receive anything in return. If you did the dual GPL/alternative license, you could profit *even more*, because you would get both support and involvement from users who can spot bugs and suggest bugfixes, while you would still get a monetary profit from people who decide to lock up your software. Thus, everyone still pays for using your software commercially: either with code or with money. At the same time, GPC would benefit from being free and open, as would its users. We would be able to keep promoting it from Octave, which has a non-negligible proportion of users. Please consider this one more time. Thanks, - Jordi G. H. GNU Octave Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
