Johan; thinking out loud.

I have changed the license for logview4net from BSD to Artistic License 2.0. As far as I understand these licenses this means that you previously could do just about whatever you wanted with the logview4net and now your freedom is limited to your own organization. That is: You may still freely distribute the unmodified binaries, but you are only allowed to distribute modifications within your organization.

The reason for this change is that I don’t want anyone to repackage my stuff and make a lot of money from it. I also want to have the same license for all my open source software and the BSD was a little bit to loose for my future needs.

If you are in need of any other type of licensing please contact me, I am open for suggestions.

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I am thinking of releasing logview4net under a commercial license as well as the BSD license I am using now. This would enable users in organizations that dislike open source to use the application anyway.

Besides the political issues I need something else to motivate an organization to pay for something that is given away for free. There is at least one new listener coming up and I could definitively release updates earlier to commercial users. I don’t like having to manage two code bases so the compiler savvy could always get the latest version from SourceForge. I guess I could include the source and documentation in the commercial package if someone wants to run the application without internet access. On that note I could offer email notification to commercial customers when there are new updates.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

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I will probably start differencing the functionality for registered and unregistered users of jsiPodFetch. Since it doesn’t do much there is not many functions to take out. I will start by directing unregistered users to a downloading page when there are upgrades instead of downloading the new installer automatically. Nag screens are also a viable solution, but I will give that a second thought. Nag screens has converted me from a free rider to a paying customer some times. I have on the other hand completely abandoned software that was a bit too intrusive.

jsiPodFetch is a utility for getting podcasts to your phone or ipod clone. It will create a well ordered playlist and keep track of what shows can be deleted from the media player.

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