dentarg wrote:Rickard wrote:Also, please note that I have no intentions of ever making any money off PunBB.
(from http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2576)
Seems like "ever" only lasted for 4 years.
This as your first post gives me the impression that you're trolling and I shouldn't bother responding. But I'm tired and slightly annoyed by trolls in general, so you get a response
You're right. Rickard did say 4 years ago that his intent was not to make money off of PunBB but to develop it and share it with the world. The statement was just as true then as it is now. If Rickard really wanted to make money off of PunBB, he wouldn't have sold the rights to the code: he would have forked the code and only released a for-pay version (which he has in this topic said he will not do). He is not trying to harm members of this community (some of whom have made money off of PunBB in one way or another). He hasn't taken his money and run off to an island in the Caribbean: he's still working on the code and releasing it for free so that you have the ability to post here and complain.
If you're objecting to the fact that he made some money after having worked on PunBB for 4 years supported only by donations, then please go ahead and explain to me what's wrong with that. I know if I had worked on a project for 4 years and was approached with an offer that I thought was good for the project as well as for me, I would take it.As I and others have said numerous times, changing the owner of the copyright does not change the license PunBB is under. The code currently under the GPL will remain under the GPL in perpetuity. Developers have affirmed multiple times that they will not work on a closed source PunBB. I'm not sure how much more we can say to assuage people.
Yeah, I'm trolling a little bit. :-)
There's nothing wrong on making money from your code.
I just thought it was kinda ironic that I found that post with that quote, just after I had read this news post. Had to point it out. :-)
Thank you for replying.