Is it not permissible to compile your own app with your own contributions and sell yourself? If you add some great features to the app and maybe change the UI a bit you can sell a different version of the app yourself as long as you make your improvement and code availble to the community for free. This is beauty of open source. I have my own app that has features I built but they are features specific to ne and my company so I dobt sell them but, I could sell ny app too. Diversity and choice is terrific. We need more than one app anyway. Build away and I will be first in line to buy the app. On Aug 30, 2013 8:12 AM, "Randolph Carter" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Exactly the point which I wanted to raise as well. In my opinion, in > such a case as the owncloud app it needs to be clear where the money > goes exactly. Because why should someone work on something where > *somebody else* earns money for it? > > It's not the contributing itself which is in question here; nor the fact > that there's no money for it - I think we all know that the real benefit > and reward of working on Open Source software lie somewhere else than in > money. However, if contributing means helping someone else to earn > money, without getting any oneself, that has the potential to squash any > motivation for contributing for free. > > I don't argue that open source software cannot also be sold. I just want > to make the point that in the best interest of keeping everybody > interested in contributing, transparency of any such money flows is > crucial! > > Randolph > > On 2013-08-30 15:06, Alessandro Cosentino wrote: > > Sorry to butt in on this conversation, but I believe the main point, > > on which Kelvin was confused when he asked those questions on IRC, was > > not addressed in this thread yet. > > Let me play his advocate here. We encouraged him to not fork the > > project and to rather work along the owncloud community to the > > existing app. > > And yes, almost all of us agree that "Selling free software" is the > > right thing to do. > > But his point (at least on IRC) was: if I help with coding, will I get > > a percentage of the money that users pay for the app? > > If not, who gets the money? > > On IRC we weren't able to address these questions. > > > > Alessandro > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In addition to what Frank said, you might find this article on > >> »Selling Free Software« interesting: > >> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > >> > >> »Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you > >> should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that > >> you should charge as little as possible — just enough to cover the > >> cost. This is a misunderstanding. > >> Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge > >> as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please > >> read on.« > >> > >> > >> It’s similar if you look at some of the other apps interacting with > >> ownCloud, notably the mobile apps for the News reader. > >> There’s the Android app by David: > >> > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader > >> And the iOS app by Peter: > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iocnews/id683859706 > >> I think it’s great that they develop both open source, and charge for > >> them too. And it’s worth it because the apps are really good! > >> > >> > >> So please be welcome and contribute: http://github.com/owncloud/android:) > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Hi Kelvin, > >>> > >>> > >>> On 29.08.2013, at 21:36, Kelvin Hammond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'm wanting to add CalDav and CardDav support to the android owncloud > app and maybe some other features should I have the time to do so. > >>>> > >>>> The problem I'm running into now is that the app is for sale on the > android market instead of free even though its open source. > >>> > >>> This is not an contradiction. The app is open source but also cost > $0.99 in the store. > >>> The money is used to pay for some of the development that goes into > the app. If you don't want to spend one dollar than you can grab the source > code from github, compile it yourself and put it on you device. But I think > it's friendly to support the development with $0.99 > >>> > >>> > >>>> I've paid for the app on the market already only to find that it > doesn't support contacts or calendar sync which is what I bought it for. > >>> > >>> Sorry for that. I think it was in the app description that it support > access to files but no contacts/calendar syncing yet. > >>> > >>> > >>>> I'd have no problem doing it for free if the app was free but seeing > as how the app isn't free who does the money go to? > >>> > >>> The money goes to the developers who write this open source app. > >>> > >>> > >>>> If I add these features am I allowed to fork the owncloud app and put > it on sale on the android market? > >>> > >>> You are allowed to do that. It is is open source so you can fork it if > you want. But I would recommend to not do that but to contribute to the > existing app. The ownCloud community is friendly and open for new > contributors, ideas and code. So I would recommend to look at the code on > github and submit your extension and pull request. It's better to work > together instead of duplicate work. > >>> > >>> Thanks a lot and let me know if you have any questions. > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Frank > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Thank you, > >>>> Kelvin Hammond > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Owncloud mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Owncloud mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Owncloud mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > _______________________________________________ > > Owncloud mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud > > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >
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