Hi all!
A few days ago somebody (an owner of site which provides users with a hosted popup note application for their websites) inquired if I could make a branded version of PNotes that he would be able to provide to his customers. He asked me about rules and restrictions of GPL. I'm also not a expert, but I answered him that application should remain open source and he has to provide his customers with GPL license and ability to obtain the program source code. It seems that he agrees with these conditions. Are there other restrictions I don't remember?
He also offers to pay me for the job (for compilation etc). Because I've never sold any piece of code (the kind of things my boss does every second :)), I just don't know how much may it cost? I'm in two minds: 10$ or 1000000$ ?
I will be very much obliged for any kind of advice.
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Branded version of program - advices needed
June 13, 2008 - 3:43am
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Branded version of program - advices needed
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on the GPL part you're right but Im not an expert either. But I'd move this post to the development or general Forum so more people see it.
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Looks interesting. GPL forces all distributed modifications to be open source. He is able to sell GPL'd stuff as long as it's still GPL'd (like RedHat). Here is the GPL: http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php
As for the price...
Think about it this way. If he is going to sell it, then you should raise your price, but if he's giving it away, you should make it lower.
I'd say a decent price would be about 100 dollars, give or take a ten.
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on how much he will sell it for, or you could argue for a percentage
Yes a percentage
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