Hi Alexandre,<div><br></div><div>In a future version of the website, item sellers will be able to select the license for their work from a dropdown list of common choices while uploading their item.</div><div><br></div><div>
For now we'd suggest they explicitly enter it in their product description and include it in their release file.</div><div><br></div><div>We are not going to enforce license choices aside from suggesting sellers adopt the most liberal policy they are comfortable with choosing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Alexandre Castonguay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acastonguay@artengine.ca">acastonguay@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I appreciate the goals of TugBits but I would like to suggest the Open<br>
Source Hardware or Open Hardware and Design licences and models : open<br>
licence + store for kits. Seems to work for ladyada?<br>
<br>
Furthermore, if the boards and projects you host have, as a starting<br>
point, an artwork as destination, then you could aslo get paid for<br>
making them in the first place.<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheerio,<br>
<br>
Alexandre<br>
<br>
Le 11-06-08 19:30, Tom Burns a écrit :<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi Darcy<br>
><br>
> I absolutely appreciate the devil's advocate. You've brought up a great<br>
> number of points. Many we've considered but many we haven't, so thank you.<br>
> I will be taking you up on your offer.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Tom<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Darcy Whyte <<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com">darcy@siteware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> I know I'm being pretty hard on you guys as a devils advocate but trust me<br>
>> that there is only good will here.<br>
>><br>
>> Buried in all this discussion is one important statement that you actually<br>
>> said right at the beginning:<br>
>><br>
>> "Our dream goal is to help people quit their desk jobs and pay their bills<br>
>> doing what they love, making things".<br>
>><br>
>> If you ping me privately by email, I can arrange a meeting with a couple of<br>
>> my business friends to see what cooks up.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Tom Burns <<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I'd like to introduce the community to a website I've been working on with<br>
>>> a few friends. I would love to hear your feedback on the idea and the site,<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.tugbits.com" target="_blank">http://www.tugbits.com</a> .<br>
>>><br>
>>> Our dream goal is to help people quit their desk jobs and pay their bills<br>
>>> doing what they love, making things.<br>
>>><br>
>>> TugBits.com is a digital marketplace for makers. You upload your design<br>
>>> files, list them for sale, and collect money via PayPal when your item<br>
>>> sells. Likewise, you can use the site to find quality, reviewed designs<br>
>>> suitable for printing on your 3d printer, milling on your CNC, running on<br>
>>> your Arduino, etc. Also suitable would be e-books, schematics, source code<br>
>>> libraries and tools, etc. Only after the PayPal transaction is the buyer<br>
>>> able to download the files. There are no physical items sold on the TugBits<br>
>>> store, only files.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Our goal is to help talented makers easily profit from their hard work.<br>
>>> We do not want to replace the existing "free/open source" model, but we<br>
>>> want to augment it. We think that if you can get paid for your work it will<br>
>>> compel you to go the extra step and make it that much better. Market driven<br>
>>> innovation.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Registering and listing items is free. We charge 25% of your gross<br>
>>> revenue and bill monthly. Depending on our costs and community feedback<br>
>>> this number is probably going to change, but it's similar to the costs<br>
>>> associated with putting an app on an app store or a musician listing with<br>
>>> iTunes.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Currently you can register on the site and list items for sale, which is<br>
>>> what I would love for any of you interested to do. We are in the final<br>
>>> stages of getting PayPal to sign off on the site, at which point sellers<br>
>>> will be able to collect money and items will be able to be sold.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Please visit the site and let me know what you think! Even if you hate<br>
>>> it, please reply to tell me why.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thank you,<br>
>>> Tom Burns<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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