PizzaPino, on 04 February 2012 - 06:47 PM, said:
i guess its more like:
crediar wanted to sell dml to atleast get something for his work.
godlike bought it for the community.
crediar maybe felt bad that godlike had to pay it by himself.
he tells the community to give godlike his money back, so they can get the new version.
crediar happy, godlike happy, community happy.
This seems to be along the right lines the way I see it. The thing I don't like about the whole thing is how crediar sold the project, but then basically kept it (he kept working on it, driving the whole thing etc.). WiiPower made some contributions, but according to him, his contributions are minimal compared to crediar's. in other words, nothing actually changed, crediar just took 400 euros to make it open source. Which would be "ok" if it was donations, but I think it's a bit harsh when it's from one person. And now crediar is feeling bad about the whole thing I guess and this is his way of making amends. I admire that he is at least trying to make amends, but I don't think the way he did it in the first place was the best approach. I think he should have just requested donations and released the source when it got to a certain point. But then again, he wrote the code, it's up to him.