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Re: Developers Needed


  • Subject: Re: Developers Needed
  • From: Julian Barkway <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:21:20 +0200

On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 05:27 pm, Albert Atkinson wrote:

I am sorry if I was not clear about the intent of the software when finished. The software WILL be free, it will just not be open source. It will probably be something like donationware or something where people can use it for free.

I think the problem you will have is that there don't seem to be any guarantees (other than your word) that you won't ever charge for the final product. I am sure you are doing this in good faith, but issuing your program under (for example) the GPL *ensures* that to be legal your software must be free and it's then your responsibility to make the source available *somehow*. This is the guarantee that will mean you're more likely to get interested programmers signing-up for your project. Without it, people will be suspicious, whether justifiably or not.

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Julian Barkway
email@hidden
Zurich,
Switzerland
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