Well that all depends, if some company invest X months in making
something, they are not going to give it away for free, (unless they are
making money on something else like support or hardware).
If you could buy a license and pay lets say a few hundred euro's to use
this, it might be interesting for you and for them, but they will not
make it open source for that amount of money. (Unless they want to take
somebody else out of business by taking away his customers.)
If you pay for the complete development + some profit, yes it could make
it to the gpl, but it will cost you a multitude of that.
Lots of people want everything for free (im not pointing at you btw, im
just talking in general) , but don't actually contribute anything
theirselves. And guess what, they also want free support on those free
things and they will bitch at you when something breaks. (e.g. with the
timebom bug)
Zoa.
Nicolás Gudiño wrote:
Any deal that does not put this back into the community is not
considered a good deal.
I disagree. If he has something that he has developed and wants to
sell
it for $20 or $50 (or more depending on the value of the feature to the
end user), I would call that a good deal.
If it's an independent software not linked to asterisk, that's ok. But a
modification to the asterisk GPL source code, requiring you to buy a
commercial license because they are not willing to contribute the
modifications back to the community, then it is *not* in the GPL spirit,
and IMHO not a good deal at all.
It's like Didium selling a commercial version with features NOT INCLUDED
in the GPL version. I'm sure nobody will like something like that,
specially because of the disclaimers/dual license model.
Just my 2 cents..
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