From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2008-06-17 08:10:37
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Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=5037411 By: ham_scireum IMHO I see two strategys of open source. The first one is the one you mentioned. The licensor keeps his code and maintains it by himself and releases the older versions as GPL code. The benefit of this strategy is: market awareness because lots of people can use the code for free. The improvements in the GPL code have to be synced into your own codebase (lots of work). The second strategy is to release it under the LGPL and enable other companys to earn money with it and also enable them to team up with you in points of developement. I'm absolutely sure that you will have much more effect on the second strategy, cause you'll be the first java libary providing PDF rendering capabilitys. An the lack of this feature is really a pain in the ass for the java world. I think jpod has the oportunity to become the leading Java PDF libary with its robustness, its text extraction features and als its rednering capabilitys. So for you, you will get better, more reviewed and tested code which is essential for your own software, you'll get very good PR as the maintainer of the most popular pdf libary, you can support the libary and earn money with support and developement services. You can write an documentation and sell it as a book. And you can still sell your CABAReT produkt even if you directly use the community code. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=727491 |