Posted by
Adrian Daerr on
May 16, 2007; 6:40pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/sell-ImageJ-tp3699427p3699437.html
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Gabriel Landini wrote:
> What if the clients find out that you are selling them software that is free?
> They may not be very amused...
The point is you are allowed to bundle ImageJ with your plugins into
something that works out of the box, and sell it. If ImageJ was released
under the terms of the GPL, you could still sell your plugins, but the
client would have to download and install ImageJ separately (unless a
non-GPL licence for ImageJ were negotiated with the author(s)).
I am personnally a big fan of open source, but I don't need to write
programs for a living. On ImageJ Wayne manages to have both worlds
coexist nicely and often to the benefit of both.
To give an example, e.g. Scion corp. profited from NIHImage and then
ImageJ to have a working program to bundle with its acquisition boards,
which in turn added frame grabbing capability to the program and
attracted new users. Of course, Scion makes money on its boards, not on
the software which it offers for download, but the point is that it
could not have included NIHImage/ImagJ on a CD with a board each time it
sold one, if the licence were GPL.
regards,
Adrian
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