[Ramadda-users] Licensing

[Jeff M. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I hope all is well for folks in the new year.  I plan on getting a new
release out in mid February.

Lots of changes happening on the Geode Systems front -
http://geodesystems.com
With the new year I am focusing my efforts on building out my company and
RAMADDA as a product. Science informatics is an important  piece of this
effort but I am expanding my focus to wider areas.  I believe the
University and research community will benefit from the evolution of the
product.

I am settling in on a new license for RAMADDA and I wanted to get feedback
from the community. I am staying with current shareware/payware model. I've
changed the shareware banner to be both useful for Geode Systems and not
obnoxious for site use. e.g. -  http://boulderdata.org/

On the payware side I will still stick with the $/user license but for
universities and non-profits I will offer a site license at some fixed cost
so for now something on the order of 600 USD.

I do recognize that in some case (e.g. .gov sites) for some reasons (stupid
.gov rules) the above can't work. In that case I would grant free site
licenses.

I'd appreciate any comments about this. The switch over will happen in the
upcoming release.

Thanks
Jeff