Hi Dylan, For my experience, productized addons really do not work in Plone ecosystem, as the size of the ecosystem is too small to have any benefits from the productization.
I.e. Money made from selling the plugin << money made from consultancy -Mikko On 31 July 2013 10:22, Dylan Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Guys. > > Just to be clear, we weren't planning on selling a plugin as thats not > really our style, but I did notice a prominent Plone company now seems to > be selling rather than freely distributing some very useful plugins, which > is a shame. > > --- > Dylan Jay > Technical Solutions Manager > PretaWeb: Multisite Performance Support > P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/pretaweb | > linkedin.com/in/djay75 > > > > On 31/07/2013, at 5:16 PM, Jean Jordaan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Dylan Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My understand was that you couldn't license a plone product with > anything > >> other than a GPL license due to the Plone GPL license. Does that > prevent you > >> from being to sell a plugin > > > > Selling a plugin is fine: "we encourage people who redistribute free > software > > to charge as much as they wish or can" > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > > > >> and not publish the plugin on pypi or plone.org? > > > > You only need to make the source code available to the buyer, though you > are > > allowed to distribute it more widely. The buyer in turn also has the > freedom > > to modify or distribute the software. Neither is obliged to distribute > it; see > > Google and others who use GPL software and never make the code available. > > > > """ > > Thus, you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without > > modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to > anyone > > anywhere. Being free to do these things means (among other things) that > you do > > not have to ask or pay for permission to do so. > > > > You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them > privately > > in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they exist. If > you do > > publish your changes, you should not be required to notify anyone in > > particular, or in any particular way. > > """ > > > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > > > IANAL ... > > > > -- > > jean . .. .... //\\\oo///\\ > > _______________________________________________ > Product-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers > -- Mikko Ohtamaa http://opensourcehacker.com http://twitter.com/moo9000
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