Re: [LUG] OT: Licensing your software for Charity

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, jody salt wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm one of those extreme lurkers!
>
> I have an idea and was wondering if it has been done before?
>
> Basically the idea is a to create a licensing system where you 
> distribute your software with the condition that if people use your 
> software they have to make a donation to a charity of your choice.
>
> For example I might have written some "online shop software" which I 
> might want to use to make money for a charity of my choice e.g. 
> shelterbox. So if a company wants to use the shop software I might put 
> the condition that they have to donate at least £10 to shelterbox.
>
> Has this been done before?

Looks like it:

  http://charityware.info/

Gordon

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