A Commercial Edition?

[Gargoyle87]

We all know that Gargoyle is a free open-source software, and Gargoyle developers are consuming time and effort in the development.

DD-WRT have a commercial edition, so why not Gargoyle?

It will be a great idea if there was a Gargoyle Advance Edition that have more features (like VLANs, multiple SSIDs, captive portal...), and sold at a reasonable price (like 20-30 USD).

[ps2chiper]

That kind of defeats erics purpose with gargoyle, but if you want to commercially sell routers with gargoyle pre installed, you do need to pay licensing fees.

[Gargoyle87]

That kind of defeats erics purpose with gargoyle, but if you want to commercially sell routers with gargoyle pre installed, you do need to pay licensing fees.

I do not want to sell anything!

What I meant that Eric is spending time and effort on development... which I think that they are limited resources for him (I do not think that Gargoyle development is a full time job ).

Gargoyle development is slow... getting a revenue from the project improves the development rate and quality... the idea of selling routers is good... but selling a commercial advanced edition will be great!

So why not developing an advanced edition (maybe by giving more time and effort), and then selling it... and the normal edition remains free...

[ps2chiper]

well he cant exactly do that under the gpl or he would need to add a new license like bsd to his code.

[DoesItMatter]

Yea, since OpenWRT is open-source, and Gargoyle is just
the front-end, it can't just be sold as is.

Besides all that, you have to get tons of people interested!

For Eric to do this full time, even if he was just selling
pre-loaded routers, would take a ton of interest and marketing
to make money to support himself.

Starting off a business here, especially in this economy, is rough!

Trust me, I know!

[Gargoyle87]

It will be a great idea if there was a Gargoyle Advance Edition that have more features (like VLANs, multiple SSIDs, captive portal...)

I think that captive portal should have a high priority, because all users will make use of captive portal!

(VLANs, multiple SSID... are not important for most users...)