Question on Licensing about objectdumper HOT 3 OPEN

I don't think @granadacoder's question was questioning whether or not you deserve to be compensated for your work, it's more that the nuget package says this is licensed under the Apache license, which contradicts the "For commercial use please contact the author" stipulation at the end of the readme. So people that just grab the nuget package and take a quick look at the readme examples may unintentionally violate your intended license. I wouldn't have noticed the non-commercial stipulation if not for this question.

Googling around, it sounds like a common way to tackle this is to dual license your project under a very strict open source license and also offer a commercial license, but I am far from an expert here.

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Thanks for your statements, @granadacoder. Let‘s just be clear:

• It costs a lot of effort to develop and maintain this package.
• People can use it free of charge if they don‘t use it in commercial products.

Question: If the package is used in a commercial product why should I not get compensated for at least a part of the original development cost? I‘m a professional software developer and software is my income.

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Your proposal @granadacoder? How would you handle such a license situation? We can discuss it on linkedin. Feel free to connect: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/thomasgalliker

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