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Re:Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor u... by shazow on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:24PM (#2809733)
I don't understand how having a GPL license will improve your funding situation.

Are you expecting that people will come along and pay $4,096 for an MIT license?

If they were doing it to support the project, then they would do it just the same if it was MIT to begin with, but who would do this just to get a different license?

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Re:Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor u... by flaminglunchbox on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:50PM (#2809824)
The idea is that if a company wants to reserve the right to customize, commercialize and close the code they can... but only by supporting the completely open version first.
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Re:Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor u... by streptomycin on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @07:56PM (#2810045)
The GPL won't do that for SaaS. You need the AGPL.
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Re:Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor u... by flaminglunchbox on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @08:06PM (#2810066)
There's no planned SaaS component to this. It should primarily all be client-side and interface with established SaaS systems instead of requiring its own.
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