Hi, quick question about the website, which is evolving quite fabulous.
The page is operated and sponsored by a German company Hanseatic Bits UG (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG .
I’m wondering: what the philosophy behind the project is? How is the funding taking place? What will happen to the crowd-sourced data and the joint effort? Don’t get me wrong, but putting effort in a closed source database that belongs to a company, which then claims the copyright of said database (German Urheberrecht), is something I would like to discuss upfront.
Again, I’m talking about an open source application, not about user contributions.
The main benefit of this is be that people can know what your application does, and thus it increases trust in your application.
I don’t see any downsides in this for you, unless you want to sell the web application and/or artificially minimise competition.
They stated the downsides: seeing other people creating their own version of buy-european.net, which kind of splinters the repository efforts
As someone who’s regularly seeing people trying to create their own version of this community instead of contributing to it, I kind of see where they come from
This is not an application. It’s a website that shows information. Therefore there is no need to trust the code - the same as 99.9% of all websites and your trusted developer will confirm same for you. If you don’t want to use a website as you don’t trust it because you don’t have the source code, you probably have an interesting Internet experience.
So, again: The code will not be open sourced.
No need to open source the code, but would there be a way to have a backup person in case something happens to you?
There is a backup as we work on it as a team and more than one person has access to it. No need to worry.
Sounds good, thanks!