joe312213

Thanks Jack. I'll continue working on the code and then see what I want to do with it when it's ready for others to use.

Hi, Thanks for further clarification. I do appreciate the intent behind the licensing and that was clear before, so perhaps it would have been better not to bring it up, as I'm sure dealing with these questions can get tedious and grating. My position is I've created some, what I think is fairly unique, web animation functionality that is useful for personal project work I'm doing, but which I think also has commercial potential, so I want to explore that (while also making it free for non-commercial use). But I want to avoid being in a situation where it doesn't succeed (maybe the functionality gets integrated into GSAP or another well known company duplicates it in their own product, or it's not as useful as I think it is. etc) and I'm $150 down, because for me, right now, that's a significant amount. If I do commercialize what I've made and it makes some money, then I would be delighted to support gsap (for the reasons your describe) - even if potentially on a legal technicality I didn't strictly need to. My intention is definitely not to make a wad of cash thanks in part to gsap and then not give anything back. I hope that much is clear now, and I'm sorry not to have elaborated my intention before. And I suppose if it did OK then I'd be in a similar position to you - in relying largely on trust for people using it commercially to pay the license.

Thanks for the clarification Carl. So I suppose if the code I write and sell is completely abstracted away from gsap, containing no references to, source from, or dependency on it (e.g. through Tweene proxy) - and then the code that independently links gsap as a backend to it is made freely available, then I wouldn't need a license? Of course, I agree that anyone who is or will be deriving commercial benefit by selling a product that is going to do better as a result of gsap, aught to help support the further development of gsap, by buying a license. That's totally fair. My aim really is to minimize the risk before doing so. While I know $150 probably seems a trivial amount to most people who make any money from coding, and not even worth the time spent discussing it, that's not always the case. Joe

Hi there, GSAP is incredible work, thank you so much for making it! I have a query about licensing. There's no doubt about it being worth the license, but being in a similar boat to bytecodegroup, I wanted to know how licensing applies to a plugin that makes use of gsap framework, but does not include the gsap library in its distribution. I.e. it provides enhanced plugin functionality for anyone already using gsap. What kind of license if any is required for selling such a plugin? Does it make a difference if my plugin accepts different animation backends beside gsap, e.g. jquery animate? Regards, Joe