![]() My self I would rather make the donation than go through that hassle (although I have to anyway to do development.) In the 3 or more years that I have been involved in Fritzing, I’ve been watching it die. In this case the fee pays for the infrastructure to build and publish a distribution (which, having built a build environment for development I can testify, takes at least a couple of mandays of time to do!) You are, as you point out, free to download the code from github, and compile it yourself, it isn’t anywhere near easy, but it is possible. ![]() I don’t think the donation violates gpl, it has always been true under gpl that a fee for a service is fine. 1% of the people downloading the code in the past made a donation with the previous download page, and there needs to be a revenue stream to support the web site, download infrastructure, and development. ![]() While I don’t like it either, I see the necessity of it if Fritzing is to survive. So I’m not sure the download page is GPL friendly. ![]() Well, personally I don’t like the fact that the download page is currently setup the way it is… Lots of people help with this project. ![]()
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