Donations for open source projects have notoriously low participation rates - to the point where popular and critical infrastructure projects can't afford to maintain a fulltime employee or two - so don't take it personally.<p>If you want companies to pay you, then ask them to pay you. Keep it as a simple license (not one that has devs asking wtf it is), but offer a commercial bundle with email and dev support, LTS, backwards compat and perhaps authentication modules (for LDAP/AD, OAuth) and I think you'd be surprised by just how many companies make these purchases (I make them all the time).<p>Also, on price - $100-300 is "no-brainer i'll put it on my credit card and expense it at the end of the month" while €800 is approaching purchasing decision territory for a lot of companies.
Smart guy. Copyleft for the open source crowd to use freely, commercial license for businesses who want to keep their own source closed.<p>I wonder where you get a good commercial license to use like this. Is it always a custom thing requiring expensive lawyers or is there some repo of commercial licenses one can use?
It's a great piece of software. I use it in two projects both commercial platforms though not particularly big money makers.<p>The problem for me is I remain somewhat uncertain about the implications. If I use this within a service that requires payment from customers, it seems to me there is no change. And most software using this is likely to be delivered as a service right? Maybe I misunderstand the license.<p>In a way if the approach was more aggressive it would be easier for me. I could just go to the people that write the cheques and say: we use this software. New version requires payment. Write a cheque.<p>As it is I'm not sure whether we have to pay or not. As for donations - well I could make one personally (in fact I will) but it is unlikely to be 780 euros...
I understand the switch to copyleft, but the EU's own website explicitly lists GPL licenses as incompatible, in the matrix on this page:<p><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl/eupl-compatible-open-source-licences" rel="nofollow">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl/eupl-compatib...</a><p>Dual-licensing under the EUPL and GPL, with the option to choose either, would be helpful. Otherwise Nodemailer is incompatible with the majority of other copyleft code.
Hmm. A wee bit off-topic, but is there a license of these sorts that do the "free until you make X revenue", similar to those used by Unreal and Unity?
andris9,
you mentioned that the EUPL was more European Union friendly, similar to how GPL is more USA friendly.<p>Do you mind elaborating what you mean by this?