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

[Patrick]

Hi Rudolf
> Since you are distributing the code yourself you can offer the binary 
> and sources for free. If a competitor wants to sell your software it 
> is *still* available from your own website.

Yes but this is where the advertising dollars matter. If no one knows it 
originally came from me, I look like the copycat.
> You're trying to clamp down on competition and that can't be done with 
> the gpl.

I really don't like the GPL ! The only family of licences that are worse 
are BSD and friends. GPL is good to the end user, that's great but 
hurtful to charitable oriented communities and small businesses that 
can't compete with large ones. BSD is even worse as it allows the 
derivative code to hurt end users too. Both make developers unpaid 
employees of mega corporations like Apple and Google.
> The nice thing is that any competitors will have to offer an enticing 
> value-add to the product and make the source code for that available 
> to others under the gpl. Or they have to work really hard and spend 
> money on a sales team to convince parents to buy their version of your 
> software (of course their version will be the same as your software, 
> it would be too expensive to both enhance the product and also sell it).
>
> There's no reason to be fearful of this.
Yes there is, again advertising dollars.


> You will be credited for the software you create in the copyrights 
> file or the license file or in every source code file. If you use the 
> gpl then any changes someone makes have to be licensed under the gpl 
> as well.

Only the competitors forking my code will see this
> The only way to guarantee that your name will appear prominently in 
> the user interface is to use a different license when dealing with 
> businesses.

If I offer two streams what's to stop the business from using the 
non-commercial version?
> Most businesses will not like the idea of selling or modifying gpl 
> software so they'll be open to paying for a different license to be 
> used and in that contract you can include the clause that credit to 
> you must be displayed in the user interface.

I am not so special that they have to go to me.

I do appreciate the feedback, sorry if this is too negative. This thread 
is really a last ditch effort. I don't want to go closed source but FSF 
licences don't work for me. I am hoping to find another source included 
license that will work.