From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997E6BC75 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:24:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mta09-winn.mailhost.ntl.com (smtpout17.mailhost.ntl.com [212.250.162.17]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1NHOp0h021398 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:24:51 +0100 Received: from aamta02-winn.mailhost.ntl.com ([212.250.162.8]) by mta09-winn.mailhost.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050223172451.GVUW29900.mta09-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@aamta02-winn.mailhost.ntl.com>; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:24:51 +0000 Received: from [80.4.70.84] by aamta02-winn.mailhost.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050223172450.SZHC1289.aamta02-winn.mailhost.ntl.com@[80.4.70.84]>; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:24:50 +0000 Message-ID: <421CBC61.5080006@ntlworld.com> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:24:49 +0000 From: Christopher Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform "Hello, World" graphical application in OCaml References: <20050222120308.GA2975@furbychan.cocan.org> <200502222123.31485.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <421BAEA3.2070106@ntlworld.com> <200502222300.01100.jon@jdh30.plus.com> In-Reply-To: <200502222300.01100.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 421CBC63.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 ntlworld:98 ...:98 compensated:98 in-house:98 graphical:02 exists:02 sell:96 raise:03 apps:04 depends:04 derived:04 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Jon Harrop wrote: > On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:13, you wrote: > >>I'm not in a position to pay that kind of money (just a student right >>now), but in general, it would depend on the licence terms and whether >>you were offering support as well as a license. >> >>It also depends on the product... people have to evaluate it somehow >>before committing money to it. To raise awareness people have to know >>it exists, which means apps have to use it. > > I think licensing would be best done by following TrollTech's example with Qt. > I'd provide some level of support, of course, but I couldn't be at a user's > beck and call unless I was compensated appropriately. > > My concern is whether or not anyone would be willing to pay me for a > commercial license. If people only want to use the code for in-house projects > and to develop open source Linux software then it would be silly for me to > give it away when I could keep it closed source and sell it (or software > derived from it). I just meant in some ways it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.