Posted by Sven Gothel on Sep 26, 2023; 6:59pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/License-Discussion-tp4042959p4042961.html

Background and elaboration.

All big & medium sized firms – as well other hybrid commercial projects,
are strongly invited to contact me to discuss the next steps forward (if any).
I would suggest to setup meetings with their stakeholders and discuss a plan forward.

A one person full time compensation might be enough, two person support would be awesome.
See How to pay professional maintainers.

^^ this is not directed to any hobby or small-biz entity using the project,
but more so directed at whats left in the ethics department of the bigger corps & orgs :-/
Interestingly enough, it always were the small biz corps supporting this project the most!
THANK YOU!

It became clear again over last months and years, that mostly relative small companies
are helping the project and even dare to contract work.

Whether it be so called big non-profit organizations like NASA or commercial entities like
Siemens, Dassault, Thales, ... only to name a few from my head - even pro-active attempts to 'get along' are fruitless.
This would also impact their so called 'non-profit' co-operations.

A license change shall not impact work and usage for all non 'big corps' at all.
However the terms must be well defined, I am aware of that.

All addressed 'big corps' would be required to request a license and hence start communication.
It goes without saying that they would either be required to contract one of us or 'chip in' otherwise.
It may just result that they drop using related work, which is also OK for me personally.

This thought is now in the open and your input is valuable.
Yes .. this is not really the way it should be - and probably also a waste of time.