Re: [racket-users] Re: Is it possible to sell commercial use rights to an open source Racket package?

2019-08-23 Thread Alexander Shopov
The part "earning what other people are doing to earn money independently using Racket." is interesting in itself - people may answer while you may check presentations at RacketConf where there are comercial usages of Racket. Take my answer with a large pinch of salt but here is gist: The DrRacket

Re: [racket-users] Re: Is it possible to sell commercial use rights to an open source Racket package?

2019-08-23 Thread Philip McGrath
One issue you would encounter is that deciding what is a "commercial" use can be difficult. This comes up with Creative Commons licenses ( https://creativecommons.org/faq/#does-my-use-violate-the-noncommercial-clause-of-the-licenses ): > … there will always be uses that are challenging to categori

[racket-users] Re: Is it possible to sell commercial use rights to an open source Racket package?

2019-08-23 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Sig, GNU provides they reason why not to use LGPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html Location licence in racket repository: https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/racket/src/COPYING_LESSER.txt - Github has a summary of what they think the meaning of LGPL is https://choos