Hi Richard, On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 11:58:54 PM UTC+2, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > What if Tiddlywiki had a licence that meant you had to pay Jeremy if you > wanted to use it for anything work related? (https://licensezero.com/) >
I'm not sure this is a good idea for the following two reasons: a) This would probably prevent most low-key, small-scale use cases of TiddlyWiki in a company. If only one or two employees would occasionally take notes in TiddlyWiki, the company probably wouldn't go through the hassle of purchasing a licence for them. They would rather ban the software outright. It's not just about the cost of the licence, but also because of the bureaucracy involved in adding another piece of software to the "pool". The IT department would probably be forced to track all "installations", make sure they are up to date etc. (simply because it's the usual process). This is also the reason why companies might be more likely to pay for a "hosted" solution. b) If somebody was sent a TiddlyWiki file (containing data, notes etc.) to their company account and opened it without having paid for TiddlyWiki, would they violate the licence? What about visiting a web page with a hosted TiddlyWiki? Technically, by loading the code into your browser, you would be "using" the software. What if you downloaded the wiki to your local computer? What if you added a note? TiddlyWiki mixes content and code. Therefore I believe TiddlyWiki can only work with a "permissive" open source licence. Even the GPL might cause trouble, due to copyleft. Cheers, Stef > > Of course such a thing would be difficult to 'enforce' but I bet there are > quite a few people using it at work or for work-related activities who > would quite easily be able to have their employer pay $50-$250 (or ?) for > the right to do so. I imagine that the average office already pays out > thousands in licences to Microsoft et al, on top of the machines > themselves, and this would be a drop in the ocean. > > Just a thought. > > Regards, > Richard > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d61cfac3-4346-40db-b1bc-b5ae93370d3b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
