I was wondering. We can release a compiled version of a program written with RunRev and Valentina database as "freeware" with the "share alike license" but what about opening up the code under a license that allows improvements and asks for those improvements back? All this would take is distributing an unlocked RunRev stack and a Valentina database and then telling the downloaders they have to go buy their copy of RunRev and their own copy of Valentina to use it?
I guess this would be exactly like someone doing a similar thing with a C+ program? What is the best license to use in this case? The GNU public license is the one I like where anyone can make changes in the software as long as they make those changes freely available. Perhaps I should release a free compiled version for each platform and then also the source code with the GNU license and as well links to RunRev and Valentina so potential software-improvers can easily come up to speed? I haven't seen any RunRev projects released like this but in my industry the software costs millions of dollars (shipping - manifest generation stuff ) and I'd like to see what happens when a similar product is released for free. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
