[BEWARE] => 14-03-2008 Instinct (E-commerce) has changed their License Scheme
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Hi,
I wanted to report to the community that Instinct.co.nz has changed their license over the code they make available for download.
Actually there never was a license and there still not is one, but as you want to develop on their code, you are lost because you don’t know where you will be.
Their License was:
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Commercial Use
You create e-Commerce sites as part of a commercial venture (for example a corporate blog or a blog network) and you want to roll out WP e-Commerce solutions. Commercial support queries have higher priority over free ones, and you will also sleep better knowing that you are helping make WP e-Commerce a better product.
Get an enterprise upgrade for your site now..
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License
WP e-commerce is certainly going to be GPL friendly. We are currently exploring what license will suit us best – we are likely to use the same model as Akismet where we offer a free version and a developer version.
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AND NOW THIS IS:
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Commercial Use
WP e-Commerce is free for commercial use. You only have to pay for the gold modules and support if required.Get an enterprise upgrade for your site now..
Support
If you want free support then the community forums are the place for you.If you want additional support outside of the free community forums then our charge out rate is $160/per hour – due to the busy nature of our business people whom have purchased a support token will always get i.
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This is actually strange that they release their code with every option open for a license to be attached to it.
So if someone here is developing his own code out of it for OWN usage in any way and no redistribution, Instinct can change their license in such a way that you will have a lot of disadvantage of it.
It’s discussed here:
https://instinct.co.nz/blogshop/forums/topic.php?id=170
You can verify the old version of their site using Google Cache that was made on 7 march this year.
This is G o o g l e’s cache of https://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce as retrieved on 7 Mar 2008 19:11:43 GMT.
The problem is, I think, for people that changed their code to their needs for providing it with hosting of WordPress in any way that they will have to pay a developer License. The question remains if this is legal over the released code as shown in the Google Cache page, so up to Beta 11, what was Beta 12 before they changed their “terms”. (I have a print out of this)
If you want to you can share your opinion or thoughts.
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