Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [fossil-users] [OT] Who's interested in project management & collaboration tools? And...

[Miles Fidelman]

Folks, I'm trying to be really clear here.

FOSS (including the GPL) does NOT mean that I have to give software 
away, it means that whenever it is distributed it CAN be freely 
re-distributed.

Our model is (I think) pretty simple:

- if you want to download the code (source, binary, client-side, 
server-side) from our machine, before public release, you have to 
contribute to the project -- anybody who downloads it is free to 
redistribute it (with open source license attached)

- after public release, all code will be available, for free, under an 
open source license, directly from our server

- after public release, there will continue to be some kind of fee for 
using the server-side code running on our server; but the server code 
will be freely downloadable and anybody can set up their own server

Miles




Patrick Anderson wrote:
> Mark Holmquist wrote:
> > there's a dollar amount sitting between binary and source,
> He is keeping the binaries and source bundled together,
> but is only distributing those *bundles* to people who pay.
>
> To some, the word 'code' is synonymous with 'source',
> but sometimes programmers (such as Miles) use the
> word 'code' to mean 'binary'.
>
> For example:
> "free to further distribute all source and binary code"
>
>
>
> > "pay $X more for the source code during alpha and beta".
> This should probably read:
> "pay $X more for the binary+source during alpha and beta".
>
>
> What Miles is doing is temporarily withholding the bundles
> of binary+source from the general public; only distributing
> them to people who actually pay.
>
> Those who pay could also distribute their copies
>
> This is a strategy to get people to pay *early* for work that
> is not yet complete.
>
> Paying before production is a profoundly important step
> toward solving the mystery of how to compensate those
> who want to build a Libre Planet.


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