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I missed opportunies to make thousands off my work. Other users charged for their work, while I gave out nearly everything for free. So, gone are the days I give out anything for free.Note, I also couldn't afford, to give my developments for free. I know, developers must have some income to live, and do have financial base to continue their development. This is true for most developers. I don't await either from GT to work for free.
I didn't suggest, to make Links SQL or any product give away for free. Just the GT library or part of it, which would attract developers here. Developers are usually also site admins. And site admins are the developers, who buys the Links SQL and DBMan SQL products.
As I pointed out, making something freely available, doesn't mean, that you can not profit from it. You may see, that I have only 1 freeware product, and others are commercial products. The reason of commercial products is, that we have to live from something. The reason of freeware product is, the advertisement.
I don't have CPAN module released, yet. Maybe if I can reach to get regular income from my developments, I will be able to afford a free CPAN module.
I could agree to buy myself a developer's license, if I use GT library for commercial project to my client.
But note, having a developer's license, will not activate the forum, and will not result more users here (at least not significant).
That's the only problem.
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If I'm not mistaken, someone mentioned (Jagerman?) a developer's license had been discussed, and I'd be all for that personally. But I'd be gutted as a paid licensee of their products to see components that had been only commerially available moved to free public consumption.How about a licence, which would
- require registration for business usage
- free for non-profit usage
- and still submitted to CPAN?
I can not leave out CPAN from wishlist, as it would be the salt for GT popularity, the free advertisement for GT.
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