[DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

[Jolyon Smith]

It's an annual limit afaik.

But it's a "revenue" limit, not profit, with no allowance for any the costs
that even a hobbyist or open source developer might incur.  e.g. if someone
makes software available for download they will most likely incur traffic
costs for the downloads.  With a "donation" scheme in place, the donations
may not even cover the traffic costs, but as soon as those donations hit
$1000, they are in violation of their license terms, even tho they still
aren't actually making any money from their Delphi use.

This is what I mean by it being ridiculously low.

If it was $1000 *profit* then it would be different.



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Jeremy North
Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2011 12:58
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

> The $1000 revenue limit is also bizarrely low imho - it's high enough to
> worm it's way around any "non-commercial use" restriction, but not high
> enough to realistically be anything other than a "non-commercial use only"
> restriction in all but name.

It is targeted at open source or hobbyists developers. I don't see any
issues with the limit.

Is the $1000 per year or a running total?
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