On 31/07/2013, at 5:58 PM, Mikko Ohtamaa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 I'd agree. The money is surely greater by growing the community at large by having a better ecosystem and then being a bigger player in a bigger pond. > > -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 _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
