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I have no intention of going commercial with NBB. I don't want to go "shareware" but if i did I would be sure to give anybody who as donated hardware or a fair amount of money would get free lifetime upgrades. My favorite choice is to keep what I do closed as donation ware that is free for anyone to use. I don't feel like donation ware is compatible with open source because a huge part of supporting it comes from feature requests (i.e. i will give you $X to make your app do this) and if it is open source there is a chance somebody will come along and harvest my hard work and repackage it because they don't like the interface or whatnot.
I am not in this to make huge amounts of cash. I am in it cuz Its what I will want when I finally get my carputer and nothing existed that fit my needs. Donations are the best thing for the community IMO. I feel like that makes the most of everything. It means nobody has to pay if they don't want to but they can donate to get features added.
i can promise that if the donors for such work as GPS/OBD2 wish it, I will release the source to those modules/classes/functions under whatever license they want as long as it doesn't prevent me from using it while the rest of the app is closed. I can even distribute the app and the modules separately if needed
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