[TYPO3-hci] Producing "reports" with TYPO3

[Bernhard Kraft]

Jean-Baptiste Rio wrote:

> Many of us are interested, it's a great job ;) Is there a particular
> raison that you don't want to upload it in the TER ?

Yes :( Money.


First of all let me say that I leave a little bit out of my mind which isn't really related
to you but to others who send me "feature requests" and somehow "demand" I will implement them.



Im a freelancer since last years November and don't write extension "just-for-fun"
anymore ...

It took me about 5 days to write this extension but until know I couldn't really sell
it (A customer meant that this was part of the project).

I already mailed with Lucas Thurston and what he stated is something I asked myself a
long time but can only decline:
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Given the freedom of the GPL you  might  be unwilling--understandably--to give away what you have  created.
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More or less (As I understand it) he write: You must give it because it is GPL.

1* Who says it's GPL ... I'm not using any code of the TYPO3 core ... So I'm just doing API calls like
Linux Kernel modules do ... which can be NON-GPL. (See recent dicussion "24iX bietet Extension zum Kauf?
on the german mailinglist : http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-german/2006-May/016585.html )


2* I do not belive that even if something IS under the GPL that someone can force you to give it away
for free !!! This is a usual misunderstanding of the GPL. If this would be the case OpenSource business
could completly not work !!!

If I have a Linux-Kernel on my USB stick ... and you say: "Give it to me" ... I do not have to do that. I
can say: Yes. But only if you give me 10,- € for carrying it around with my USB stick .... In the same manner
I can say: Yes. But only if you give me xx,- € for writing the extension ....

I do not want to "sell" it forever ... I WILL put it under the GPL and put it in TER ... but only after my
work has been paid somehow ...

I mean: YOU create websites for cutomers and get money ... I do that less (were do you get your customers from ? :)
But rather write extension for other media-agencies ... If now somebody comes up and means: Give me everthing for
free ? What the heck ?!?!?


I think 1.000,- € would be ok for this extension ... And of course not a single person has to pay that but some
companies could pay a part.


Another thing: With every extension I put into TER sometimes someone happens to find a bug ... I am most of the time
willing to fix those .... for free...
But you will notice that as more extensions I put into TER the more work I get which I "have to" do for free ....

Sometimes people also come up with feature request an mean I should do them "just because they want to" ...


I'm really annoyed and a little bit angry on all those people who think that extension for TYPO3 are completly free
of charge !!!

The GPL states: Take it as it is or leave it ...


PS: Usually I don't like money at all ... but since I am a freelance I somehow had to change my mind regarding this
issue. Else my company wont work.


greets,
Bernhard
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