| $'s for code [message #11847] |
Fri, 29 May 1998 00:00 |
mirko_vukovic
Messages: 50
Registered: January 1998
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I seemingly started a whole discussion on living of programming, and promptly
missed the rest of it.
So, what is a sensible way of sharing your programs with the rest of the
world?
I get really pissed off when some nice piece of sw that was free for ages
and all of a sudden is proprietary and costs hundreds or thousands
(in case of diffpack) of dollars.
But look at Gnu-emacs. Free, developped by hundreds of users and an
absolutely incredible tool for editing any kind of file. I suspect Xemacs
will be even more awsome.
Now, I've read bits of the GNU general public license, and agree with most of
it. The way I would go about the whole issue is that I can distribute my
software free of charge and allow others to freeley use it and/or modify it.
If however my software (or a derivation of it that still depends a great deal
on the original version) is used a part of a *commercial* package, then I
should be compensated.
For example, the way I see the polar plotting routine now, it sucks. If I
were to write my own, and distribute it, everything is fine. But now, if RSI
picks it up and ships it as part of the IDL distribution, I would want some
change.
The issue is completely different if someone approaches me and asks me to
develop a piece of IDL code for their use. In that case, first put some money
on the table:-)
mirko
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