While I get the desire to charge for free software, I am a bit perplexed at the choice to make it as hard as possible to get the source code and build it.
The reason I'd want all the software I use to be open source is so I can compile it, be confident it builds and matches what I am running, and then be ready to modify it when a need arises — along with publishing the changes to the public.
If any of those steps are hard, you might as well go with another license (like any of those read-only source licenses).
So if one makes it deliberately hard to do the above (or rather, to exercise freedoms guaranteed by GPL), why go with that license in the first place?
The biggest blocker for me in paying for free software apps today is the fact that I want to pay after the fact (after I confirm that the app does what I need it to do, because so many simply don't).
On the phones, it'd be great if there was an easy way for f-droid to highlight how much you've used particular apps and offer to donate (though at the same time, I always struggle to find the same email client I used on last reinstall, all based on the same codebase).
The reason I'd want all the software I use to be open source is so I can compile it, be confident it builds and matches what I am running, and then be ready to modify it when a need arises — along with publishing the changes to the public.
If any of those steps are hard, you might as well go with another license (like any of those read-only source licenses).
So if one makes it deliberately hard to do the above (or rather, to exercise freedoms guaranteed by GPL), why go with that license in the first place?
The biggest blocker for me in paying for free software apps today is the fact that I want to pay after the fact (after I confirm that the app does what I need it to do, because so many simply don't).
On the phones, it'd be great if there was an easy way for f-droid to highlight how much you've used particular apps and offer to donate (though at the same time, I always struggle to find the same email client I used on last reinstall, all based on the same codebase).