Comments on: P4A 3 development update and commercial license

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:52:01 +0000

@Eddie: yes because it’s a tax that we’ve to pay but that in some countries is deductible

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:41:48 +0000

Fabrizio, in mi country (México), doesn’t exists the VAT. I need pay that too..?

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:39:43 +0000

@BES: best encryption algorithm are open source :)

By: BES

BES — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:35:28 +0000

The issue is that one of the classes of users is high school students with time on their hands. Parts of the application use encryption and I do not want the algorithms exposed, though I suppose I could make that a separate subsystem that is not subject to the license. (It is all open source to the server installations, trusted IT folks, the concern is exposing it to the world.)

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:31:23 +0000

@BES: obviously you should remove the db connection password from the source code people would download :-)

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:28:18 +0000

@BES: I think that nonprofit organizations should definitively use the open source license, anyway only the authorized users of your applications have the right to access the source code so I don’t think that there should be problems

By: BES

BES — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:25:45 +0000

I’d like to see a low/no-cost option for nonprofit organizations. I’ve built some apps for a nonprofit and really want to move to P4A 3, but that would add another recurring cost burden to their volunteer development efforts. (I want the license so our open-source source code is only distributed to our fellow nonprofits, not the constituencies we serve, for security reasons.)