New Year’s resolution: harvest some knowledge from those colleagues who are digging through R. Apparently it’s not only an excellent tool for number crunching, but also can be used for neat geographic data visualizations.
Visualizing Facebook Friends: Eye Candy in R
There is one question that won’t stop spinning in my head recently:
You decide to open-source your software development project, but at the same time limit the Open Source characater to non-profit use only. The idea is to have a second commercial side of the project, that cross-subsidies the non-profit branch through for-profit licensing.
The main difference compared to other popular existing dual-licensing schemas like Ext JS or MySQL is, that the Open Source license and character only applies to non-profit use. Imagine “GPLed for Non-Profits”.
I don’t seem to be able to find a best-practice or successful implementation of such a license schema.
Why is that?
Open Source is around long enough. It is applied in academia, large non-profit foundations and global organizations and the developer community seems to often support the philanthropic cause.