[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 heresy: what about "selling" pro extensions?

[Martin Kutschker]

Stefano Cecere schrieb:
> synthesis: is it possibile to sell TYPO3 extensions to public?
> 
> detailed: to help spread TYPO3 and to have cutting edge pro extensions,
> could it possibile to deliver a "base" extension free, as normal TYPO3
> ext, and sell the pro/advanced/ad free version?
> my concerns are  GPL/TYPO3 licenses and TYPO3 philosophy...

The only problem I see is that you cannot stop a customer from publishing the code. The GPL requires
you to ship the source code (which in the case of PHP you must do anyway) without any additional
restrictions. But I guess that anyone who has paid for a bit of code isn't too keen on putting it on
TER anyway.

What I don't understand is why this should spread TYPO3? Actually I find this a rather annoying
aspect of other open source systems that I have to pay for even the dullest plugin/extension.

Masi