Good idea Mark. Seems like the whole OSS world is moving to making money
on support anyway. It would work better though if I were doing that full
time.. but anyway, that's what I'll probably do.
Thanks,
Alex
Mark Constable writes:
> > Charles Daminato writes:
> >> Gregory is almost correct. You CAN charge for changes you've made to GPL
> >> code, but you MUST (based on the license), include your altered code as
> >> well.
> >> Which means Alex will make $20 from the first person that buys the code, and
> >> that person can post the code to the lists (sorry Alex...).
>
> But that is Ok because Alex probably won't _support_ people that
> do not actually buy the code off him... so if anyone might want
> to honour his efforts or rely on some followup support then they
> have the option of buying it... this really suits some people.
> One honourable way around this is for Alex to freely offer the
> code itself but right next to the download link have another one
> that explains how to get, say, 30 days of email support for $20.
> If he generalized the "support" angle then he might even get
> people signing up not just because of the software at issue,
> per se, but because they just want some help from someone who
> knows about the whole system (assuming he does because he wrote
> code that interfaces with the rest of the system)... in other
> words the gereral support angle could be more lucrative than
> just the selling of one piece of code.
>
> The biggest bugbear is the fee transaction itself.
>
> Sorry for wandering even further off-topic.
>
> --markc
>
>
Alexey Zilber
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