NorfairKing / really-safe-money

Uncompromisingly safe money library
https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2022-08-22-how-to-deal-with-money-in-software
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Publish really-safe-money on hackage. #2

Open amano-kenji opened 1 year ago

amano-kenji commented 1 year ago

:cat::feet:???

NorfairKing commented 1 year ago

@amano-kenji I haven't chosen a license yet, so I can't put it on Hackage. Feel free to email me if you'd like to use really-safe-money.

amano-kenji commented 1 year ago

I recommend BSD0 license which is basically public domain.

NorfairKing commented 1 year ago

@amano-kenji I am not sure yet that I want to give away my work for free; FOSS tends to be unsustainable.

amano-kenji commented 1 year ago

If it's not FOSS, do you want to charge fees?

amano-kenji commented 1 year ago

https://hackage.haskell.org/upload says

The code and other material you upload and distribute via this site must be under an open source license.

amano-kenji commented 1 year ago

The best places where you can make money from softwares are

In other words, software entrepreneurship.

Libraries are not a good way to make money from software. It's difficult to make money directly from selling softwares nowadays.