Would you pay for...
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:26 am
A well designed library of PHP code which was well documented, well written, lots of articles, etc...
So long as it was released under a some what GPL type license?
Open source anyways...
Free as in speech, not as in beer???
I don't like BSD style licenses...atleast for my own projects...and I find it funny when others release code under that license...letting me basically do as I please
Hardly do I use OS code though....mostly because it's poor in docs, support, etc...
But...I ask you...
If there were plenty of solid classes, etc which garunteed to speed your development, would you pay a small nominal fee, of say...
$90USD/year developers license when used in commercial applications ONLY...
Non-commercial required a non-obtrusive link and logo tag...and mention on every page/doc, etc...
Either direction wouldn't allow redistro or forking...especially forking...I think that idea is so stupid...look how many similar apps there in PHP
Any code changes MUST be submited to the community (Original vendor) for consideration of application to codebase...
Distrobution would only be allowed if not submitted alone...if it's shipped with some packaged application...and no code changes had been made...thats fine...
Otherwise...you could not distribute the lib with your application, without written consent...if you ditribute the code in an app...the original code MUST remain intact...
If you use the code in a application which resides on a single server...and will never likely be distributed...then changes to codebase are ok...cuz you can't really stop that anyways...besides that too restrictive
Anyone know of a license which meets these requirements???
So I ask again...
Would you pay as a professional developer to use rock solid, well documented, well supported code librarys or would you just write your own, use it anyways, etc???
Cheers
So long as it was released under a some what GPL type license?
Open source anyways...
Free as in speech, not as in beer???
I don't like BSD style licenses...atleast for my own projects...and I find it funny when others release code under that license...letting me basically do as I please
Hardly do I use OS code though....mostly because it's poor in docs, support, etc...
But...I ask you...
If there were plenty of solid classes, etc which garunteed to speed your development, would you pay a small nominal fee, of say...
$90USD/year developers license when used in commercial applications ONLY...
Non-commercial required a non-obtrusive link and logo tag...and mention on every page/doc, etc...
Either direction wouldn't allow redistro or forking...especially forking...I think that idea is so stupid...look how many similar apps there in PHP
Any code changes MUST be submited to the community (Original vendor) for consideration of application to codebase...
Distrobution would only be allowed if not submitted alone...if it's shipped with some packaged application...and no code changes had been made...thats fine...
Otherwise...you could not distribute the lib with your application, without written consent...if you ditribute the code in an app...the original code MUST remain intact...
If you use the code in a application which resides on a single server...and will never likely be distributed...then changes to codebase are ok...cuz you can't really stop that anyways...besides that too restrictive
Anyone know of a license which meets these requirements???
So I ask again...
Would you pay as a professional developer to use rock solid, well documented, well supported code librarys or would you just write your own, use it anyways, etc???
Cheers