Fwd: Re: [iks-community] Aloha Editor is out.

Florent André <[email protected]>
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Andreas Kuckartz well defend the cause ! :) 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [iks-community] Aloha Editor is out.
Date: 16 Jul 2010 09:48:04 +0200
From: "Andreas Kuckartz" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

Haymo wrote:

> AGPL in our point of view is the only way for a small
> company to distribute a self founded front-end framework
> with no possibility to up-sell a commercial admin add-on.

I am well aware of the difficulties to earn money with Open Source.
While a lot of experience has been gathered and scientific work has been
carried out in this area it still is a learning process. Some of the
different kinds of implications of a license on the future are not
necessarily obvious from the beginning.

One point is that developers have to spend time to think about the
consequences of using a software component distributed under a specific
license.

Some questions which arise immediately:

What does the license imply for plugins? Do they have to be distributed
under the same license? Who decides?

Can a community of developers be grown which helps to improve and
enhance the software when such improvements in the end will be sold by a
single different company? There is an amount of inquality here which
might (not necessarily will) prevent people from joining such a community.

> PS: After the hard work the last month I think
> I deserved some rest. I'll bee on a sailing trip next
> week and not answer to the mailinglist ;-)

Sure, have fun!

Cheers,
Andreas

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