I just released the DynamicDomainProperties plugin for Grails, which allows domain classes to have dynamic properties. It’s pretty nifty, if I do say so myself.
Based on my frustration with the Grails plugin culture because of differing cultural assumptions about open source works, and based on my lack of appreciation for the promises of indirect compensation offered to me as an open source developer, I’ve decided to release it under the GNU-Affero GPL 3.0, which is like the GPL but (among other things) requires the source to be available to the users of a web app that use this plugin.
I’m open to the idea of releasing it under the more “biz-friendly” BSD, but then I’m going to want a different form of compensation. So I’m putting up a bounty via Pledgie: if I was building this plugin as a consultant, it would have cost a client about $2500. So, if the commercial community contributes $2500, I’ll do a BSD release. Anyone who donates $250 or more gets a single-domain usage license right away.
For more information on the plugin, see the plugin page on grails.org. (I’ve had enough difficulty with GitHub’s wiki freaking out on me and would rather avoid that.)
Comments
- February 22, 2010, Marc Palmer wrote: I'm interested to see how this pans out Robert - good luck!
- March 4, 2010, Jeremy Flowers wrote: Way to go. This looks like the way forward to me. In the Microsoft' arena GUI component vendors started to sell there wares this way too, like Infragistics. I always thought plug-ins would have to go the same way to get support for your plug-ins. You have to put food on the table somehow..
- March 5, 2010, Does Grails have a problem? « The MetaSieve Blog wrote: [...] I have time to, I can completely comprehend Robert’s point of view and his desire to get a different kind of compensation for his open source work. In fact, there should be plenty of space for both approaches (and [...]
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