Re: Question about programming and project management

"swengineer001@xxxxxxxxx" <swengineer001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Yes, but then it is done and will be ready to be sold.

So it is not really a hobby project.

Oh, but it is... It's not because there's a possibility to earning money
in the end, that it's not a hobby project. It's just something we do
besides our day job as programmers, and our other non-hobby projects.

2. the code needs to be released when done - which is not going to
happen. This may be a hobby project, but it's not open source.

If it is truely a hobby project why can it not be done open source?

It's a hobby project, but should it evolve into something we'd like
to be able to sell it. You can't sell stuff you've already thrown
away.

Open Source is not throw away. There is no prohibition against selling
open source software as long as you choose the proper lisence. Pick
one that works for your business model.

I know. But I consider handing out code that has cost you time and thus
money, for nothing to be throwing away code.

You can choose licenses as much as you want, but there is no open source
license that supports closed source. So there won't be one that suits our
model.

Besides, licenses can't protect code - if we open source our code and
someone uses it, and makes a profit from it, that's our loss.

If these are really concerns of yours you are probably going to
have to host it yourself or pay someone else to host it.

I'm beginning to fear for it. On the other hand, we could also just
use SF and remove the project upon 99% completion. I'll have to have
a look at their TOS etc...

Do not do that. Sourceforge is free for open source projects because
that is what they want to support. If everyone did as suggest it would
not work out so well. If you do not want it to be open source, for
whatever reason, do not misrepresent yourself to Sourceforge.

Then it's up to SourceForce to stop this potential behaviour. Not me.

I would suggest that if that is the type of ethics you have you are not
likely to make it very far in the business environment if you do decide
to sell it.

Possibly. Nobody ever got rich following rules, though...

Thanks,

Ikke
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