Confusing license
Erlend Sogge Heggen
licenses such as MIT or GPL tend to protect your product more
carefully, as they have been tested through time. It is also easier to
know whether or not they are compatible with other licenses. It sounds
to me like you want for your product pretty much what the GPL offers.
Why make it harder on the end-user by introducing another foreign
license into the open source mix?
The Editor
project, therefore it does not allow redistribution of the software. I
prefer to keep the community together. Second, as a Christian I had
ethical concerns about the use of this software for immoral purposes.
Neither of these can be prevented by the standard MIT or GPL license.
There's also the possibility someone may want to purchase BoltWire for
a million bucks, and I could buy a home in the country and retire. Not
likely, but hey, you never know. :)
Cheers
Dan
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
Though I have to say, ethical concerns could be covered in explicit
'guidelines'; not quite as strictly imposed, but then again in my
personal opinion the fewer rules imposed on the user the better. If
you make a shovel for digging there's only so much you can do to stop
some fool from whacking some unfortunate soul in the head with it.
As for selling the software, I think the most important part is
selling yourself just as much you sell the app. I *think* that
software companies today buy into the people maybe more so than what
they have created. After all, there's a reason why most programmers,
in spite of the many open and fully functional alternatives available
for most things today, choose to make their own 'baby'.
For reasons I have yet to go into detail about, I have a feeling you
would fit perfectly in with the people at Automattic (Wordpress team).
Have you tried approaching them yet? They once attempted to add a
wikisoft to their ranks of web apps, but it never gained momentum. I
feel like BoltWire could be it :)
On Dec 26, 7:12 pm, The Editor <edi...@fast.st> wrote:
> Two reasons specifically: first, I wanted to avoid a fork/split of the
> project, therefore it does not allow redistribution of the software. I
> prefer to keep the community together. Second, as a Christian I had
> ethical concerns about the use of this software for immoral purposes.
> Neither of these can be prevented by the standard MIT or GPL license.
>
> There's also the possibility someone may want to purchase BoltWire for
> a million bucks, and I could buy a home in the country and retire. Not
> likely, but hey, you never know. :)
>
> Cheers
> Dan
>
The Editor
> Heh okay, fair enough.
>
> Though I have to say, ethical concerns could be covered in explicit
> 'guidelines'; not quite as strictly imposed, but then again in my
> personal opinion the fewer rules imposed on the user the better. If
> you make a shovel for digging there's only so much you can do to stop
> some fool from whacking some unfortunate soul in the head with it.
True, and agreed. But we should try to do what we can. I sleep that much easier.
> As for selling the software, I think the most important part is
> selling yourself just as much you sell the app. I *think* that
> software companies today buy into the people maybe more so than what
> they have created. After all, there's a reason why most programmers,
> in spite of the many open and fully functional alternatives available
> for most things today, choose to make their own 'baby'.
I'm not a developer really, I'm a teacher who wanted to start an
online school and couldn't find the software he wanted for the kind of
interactivity he had in mind. And came up with a few good ideas. The
schools now up and running--so my focus is more on growing it than
looking for programming jobs. I'm pretty focused on keeping BoltWire a
means to an end. :)
> For reasons I have yet to go into detail about, I have a feeling you
> would fit perfectly in with the people at Automattic (Wordpress team).
> Have you tried approaching them yet? They once attempted to add a
> wikisoft to their ranks of web apps, but it never gained momentum. I
> feel like BoltWire could be it :)
Actually I haven't made any efforts to approach anyone! I started
BoltWire as a community because I knew it would greatly enhance the
quality of the software, and thus my projects. Not for any commercial
purpose in itself. It has grown to a point however where the BoltWire
community might be better served by a larger parent organization. I'd
have to be convinced it was in the interest of all our users, but I'm
not opposed to the idea. I do know BoltWire will one day (soon) reach
full maturity, and at that point we will need a stronger support
community, to share the load of answering questions and the like. We
will cross that bridge somehow when we get to it. But it will be
curious to watch how it all unfolds.
Cheers,
Dan