Tokens / license
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 4:40 pm
Hi guys,
there is one more change which I was in a way forced to do.
I decided not to go into details or explain things in the blog, but the reality continues to be that vast majority of users ignore the fact Meteotemplate is donationware - this means it is "free to try" and if you like it, want to use it and it works for you, please contribute. I even leave it up to you to decide how much you value it.
If I only did MT for money the response Im getting is "majority of people don´t like what I do, so what´s the point".
I will of course not think that but given there is now 1000+ of you, I simply cannot do ignore this anymore. After the last update I had to make a decision - force donations upon update request, or simply quit doing this. It is taking so much time that I had to quit my part-time job to continue, not to mention the ever increasing costs for faster server to cope with the ever increasing server load. This is not for me to buy a new computer or phone, this is simply to cover the costs and time, which in a way is costs as well because I need to offset the costs for the part-time job I quit.
There is in fact no change. It has always been like this, you even agreed with this when you checked the license agreement box. The only change is that I have to be more strict about this. I feel like it would be unfair towards those who contributed to now say, you know what guys, sorry, I cannot continue. I am sure you will agree with me on that.
I am always happy to help you, but given the ever increasing number of users, there simply is more and more emails to deal with, development is now only about 25% of time I spend on the actual coding (fixes, new things).
I am well aware of the fact some people will not like this, feel pissed off and maybe even stop using the template. Im of course not happy about this, but that´s just the way it is. If things were free for me I would do things for free as well, trust me. I tried several things, I did not want to push people, but I did include it in the wiki, download page and now even the license, but unfortunately without success because the percentage of contributing users still remained largely minor, I cannot make exceptions because that would be unfair towards the other users.
Those who applied for a token will be informed about this if I do not have a record of any contribution (there has already been over 50 of you who agreed with the license, but did not satisfy all the points). Please note, in case you used a different email when using PayPal, it is possible that I do not have you paired with the donation, in such case of course let me know and I will check it.
I still believe this is a fair deal - get it for free, try it, then decide - don´t like it? Fine. Like it? Then I leave it up to you to decide how much you think it is worth - taking into account how much support you needed, how many blocks/plugins you use etc. Unfair would be to now say I cannot work on MT anymore because of lack of funds. It would be unfair towards those who helped, some even repeatedly.
Jachym
there is one more change which I was in a way forced to do.
I decided not to go into details or explain things in the blog, but the reality continues to be that vast majority of users ignore the fact Meteotemplate is donationware - this means it is "free to try" and if you like it, want to use it and it works for you, please contribute. I even leave it up to you to decide how much you value it.
If I only did MT for money the response Im getting is "majority of people don´t like what I do, so what´s the point".
I will of course not think that but given there is now 1000+ of you, I simply cannot do ignore this anymore. After the last update I had to make a decision - force donations upon update request, or simply quit doing this. It is taking so much time that I had to quit my part-time job to continue, not to mention the ever increasing costs for faster server to cope with the ever increasing server load. This is not for me to buy a new computer or phone, this is simply to cover the costs and time, which in a way is costs as well because I need to offset the costs for the part-time job I quit.
There is in fact no change. It has always been like this, you even agreed with this when you checked the license agreement box. The only change is that I have to be more strict about this. I feel like it would be unfair towards those who contributed to now say, you know what guys, sorry, I cannot continue. I am sure you will agree with me on that.
I am always happy to help you, but given the ever increasing number of users, there simply is more and more emails to deal with, development is now only about 25% of time I spend on the actual coding (fixes, new things).
I am well aware of the fact some people will not like this, feel pissed off and maybe even stop using the template. Im of course not happy about this, but that´s just the way it is. If things were free for me I would do things for free as well, trust me. I tried several things, I did not want to push people, but I did include it in the wiki, download page and now even the license, but unfortunately without success because the percentage of contributing users still remained largely minor, I cannot make exceptions because that would be unfair towards the other users.
Those who applied for a token will be informed about this if I do not have a record of any contribution (there has already been over 50 of you who agreed with the license, but did not satisfy all the points). Please note, in case you used a different email when using PayPal, it is possible that I do not have you paired with the donation, in such case of course let me know and I will check it.
I still believe this is a fair deal - get it for free, try it, then decide - don´t like it? Fine. Like it? Then I leave it up to you to decide how much you think it is worth - taking into account how much support you needed, how many blocks/plugins you use etc. Unfair would be to now say I cannot work on MT anymore because of lack of funds. It would be unfair towards those who helped, some even repeatedly.
Jachym
