Posted by Sven Gothel on Sep 26, 2023; 7:14pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/License-Discussion-tp4042959p4042962.html

.. another little detail.

I recently had a discussion about this topic with my wife & boss,
as well as with two other persons.

Then asked why I don't make all contributions 'pay only' and 'software as a service' (SAAS),
sort of a 'Paid JogAmp Club' .. I could only chuckle.

Such a path forward (let's call it Unity Light) would disrupt the whole spirit
and modus operandi, as we also actually don't really want to have anything to do
with real biz operations - but focus on the work as is, we are too small.

Another late discussion was in a similar direction, i.e. becoming part of a non-gov entity
with a board and so on. Issue at hand is, we are not big enough as it seems.
Reaching out to such groups and foundations (Eclipse etc) were fruitless besides the usual
'recommendations' - but no actual material path forward.

Personally our little family office/company will just do contracted work to financially survive
and that seems to work OK. However, whether we can continue with the project as-is and
if we can continue working on our goals is the question here.
Last years when we gladly worked on Direct-BT in the medical device field we were OK
and big parts of the project itself were released under an open source license.
Sure .. it didn't really help the JoigAmp project.

So whoever reads about all this may get a better picture of things - if of interest at all.
Cheers