Re: [libreplanet-discuss] help with FSF incompatible but community oriented licence(s)

[Thomas Harding]

[copy to poster]
Le 03/10/2012 23:54, Patrick a écrit :
> My posts are confusing because I have two projects. Let me just stick 
> to the charity one for now.
>
> I don't want parents of autistic children to have to pay for the 
> software I am going to write to try to help them. Right now the only 
> way it looks like I can achieve this is by shipping closed source 
> software and I don't want to do that.
Ok, I try a (long) short on the thread responses:

0) whatever closed/sewing on infringement/fs license solution, there 
could be unlikely some robberies, also ideas themselves cannot be 
copyrighted and you will experience clones if there is a market.

1) As I said, VIM /is a charity-ware/ which /can also be distributed as 
GPL/ an I'm not aware of any GPL distribution nor any robbery, while 
only a few persons afford (volunteer basis). And if I red right that 
last point is not an issue for you.

2) As another post said, /you can enforce some terms with GPLv3/.

3) As another post said /it's up to you/ to make publicity of how your 
software can helps parents/children,  /especially at no cost/ (I add 
some tips):

  * I expect there are numerous non-profit associations in favor of 
that persons: post on their mailing-lists, and please contacts their leaders

  * I expect there are medical associations or groups of 
medicine/doctors on that => same action

  * Numerous free software websites/blogs/... will rely a convenient 
article, also numerous governments raises Free Software as a good or a 
better solution (starting from South America) and actively promote it.

  * In addition, in order to solve the "narrow bandwith problem" (e.g. 
in Africa) and the "robbery problem" I pointed on Dia, offer yourself 
for a few (copying, shipping) hard copies (cdrom, or DVD) of your 
software on as numerous as you can commercial sites such as amazon, 
e-bay, priceminister, etc, despite their evil philosophy for most.

       ** Do not forget to add a "free download URL"  such as 
savannah.nongnu.org (which will host you for free in an ethical way, 
with a project site, a static web site, a download area and a concurrent 
version system (CVS, SVN, ...) if you choose a convenient license and 
proof you have correct license notices/README/COPYING in sources) and 
text about your goal in announces.

       ** Ask permission to medical associations (after they evaluated) 
to publish snippets of their critics.

       ** Also correctly describe your software in announces with 
convenient generic keywords on disabilities you want fight on.

  * If a distributed database would help, then use affero-GPLv3 for 
server/database-side -- there are also Free data licenses for databases, 
or if you need for enforcements from GPLv3 /on both end user+server code 
as same licence/ which are not in A-GPL, post here and write to (fsf 
legal?) as should be an issue which can be solved in the future (while 
data(base) license *must* stay of scope of any free software license).

     ** unfortunately I have no idea of how to fund hosting, except the 
VIM method (ask for help outside license, hope for doctors or parents 
themselves will afford /just a little/: suggest an amount such as "you 
can help for that project to stay alive: just donate from 1$/£/€ to at 
most 12$ a year by (several means, some evils but well-known), also 
offer for publicity on large donations (at least drug laboratories 
/will/ afford), even for little ones (see credits in the "Blender" movies)".

I think we can't help you more than pointing you that kind of tips.

Best regards,
TSFH