shared-source

Open Company: what advice would you give?

Alexander Stigsen, author of E Text Editor is starting an ambitious project - called Open Company - in an attempt to combine the culture of open source software, with the remuneration of commercial. Read the blog post announcing Open Company. Like I say, it's ambitious, but laudable, I am sure you'll agree. My question to the communi...

Licensing software as open source but charging for compiled executables?

As I understand it software being open source does not prevent you from selling it (does this depend on the type of license?) but is this a good idea? For my pet project the target audience is for the most part non-programmers who wouldn't know how to compile the source anyway, but I still want to keep it open mostly for possible future...