AW: [Devil-linux-develop] donations

[Gunther S. <Gu...@St...>]

Hello,

first of all: I like the idea of donations very much. People CAN pay but
they aren't forced to. (Paypal would be fine since it's easy to use and
fast. A server in a 1U-design for example doesn't cost more than 600 ?uros)

Before we think about changeing the license we have to think about one
important question: who owns the devil-linux code. A lot of people have
contributed code to the devil-linux community. If we change the license and
charge any fees we'll have to ask everyone for his permission, right ?
I remember that sourceforge did the same when they changed the license.


We have to make sure that devillinux will be available for free to every
private user.

The idea of a enterprise-license for companies is not bad.
What about additional alternative models of makeing money: selling support,
selling the development of specific modules and consulting and so...

If you have a look at Mnogosearch, a free search-engine,
(http://www.stammwitz.de/mirrors/udmsearch/) you'll see that they are
offering the software for free, BUT:
- the windows version consts money
- the user can pay for an installation-service of the software on his
machine
- it might be possible to sell this product as an ASP which runs on the
sellers machine and indexes a customers website.


Bye,
Gunther
-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...]Im Auftrag von
Friedrich Lobenstock
Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. Februar 2002 14:20
An: Devil-Linux-Developer Mailing Liste
Betreff: Re: [Devil-linux-develop] donations


Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was thinking about opening a paypal account for donations to
Devil-Linux.
> We would see by this way, how much the people really would really donate.
>
> Another thing I was thinking about,  to do it like Dansguardin (
> http://dansguardian.intmain.com/ ) and give out a download license.
> This means that DL is still under GPL, but companies have to pay a
> certain amount in order to have a valid DL license.
> I was thinking  about an amount between $10-$50 per company and release.
> Personal use and non-profit organizations for free, of course. This
> means it would be an enterprise license for the current release (they
> can install as many servers as they want).
> Active developers would have special rights, of course.

Doesn't that interfere with SF?

> Another thing would be including commercial virus scanners and other
> products. But for this, we would have to provide a commercial and free
> version. But I don't like this idea.
> But I have the bad feeling, that we have to do it, to get there, where
> we want to be.
>
> When we do this, we could eventualy effort our long planned own server
> and other services. What do you think about it?
>
> Does somebody have some knowledge about the tax situation? I'm currently
> living in the U.S., but I'm pretty sure that there will be some issues.

For sure you'll have to talk to a tax expert.

--
MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock

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