Re:Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X
by fieldforceapp on Saturday August 04, 2012 @11:16PM
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> Can you be more specific about monetization links?
I don't mean to confuse this with a license type... we get about a 30 referrals a week from your site (nice traffic for a control!) and just wondering if we can direct them somehow to try the app which actually uses the control. Does Apple have an app store affiliate program? Maybe you can leverage that somehow?
> When the repo is first added to Cocoa Controls, a field is filled out for specifying which licenses the control is made available under
Can this be updated, manually?
Re:Custom UI Controls for iOS and Mac OS X
by aaronbrethorst on Saturday August 04, 2012 @11:26PM
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Ah, I see what you're saying. Let me think about that a little more, and see if we can figure something out. I'm looking at letting control authors edit their controls without ever having to go through me (I'm planning on setting up an audit log to prevent spam), and I think that—as part of this—I might allow sanitized HTML in the description field for a control. So, that way you'd be able to point people to your website.
> Can this be updated, manually?
By me, yes. By you, not yet. Shoot me an email (it's in my profile), and let me know what you want changed.
Can you be more specific about monetization links? What form would you like to see this take? We do offer the ability to commercially license your controls via our site (e.g. you could dual-license your control and offer commercial support for a fee).
License type: totally 100% manual right now. When the repo is first added to Cocoa Controls, a field is filled out for specifying which licenses the control is made available under. This information may get out of date as time passes (I've seen many instances where a developer changes from GPL -> MIT or Apache 2.0, e.g.).
I actually asked GitHub to make license a first class piece of repository metadata a few weeks ago, but no clue when or if this will ever be added.