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

 

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:25:54PM +0000, 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? 

The Vim project suggests that users donate to a particular charity,
rather than to the project.

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