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Postcardware – free to use if you send us a postcard

26 points by Mojah 9y ago

tmaly 9y ago
What is free to use? I am not sure what the site is for.
- snuxoll 9y ago
  The details are hidden at the bottom, most of the repositories spatie has on github have a postcardware statement in the readme, similar to this. Postcardware You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using. Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium. We publish all received postcards on our company website. It's cute, they don't demand anything causing licensing issues while having some fun with the postcard thing. Kind of reminds me of SDF's option to verify your account with a postcard instead of a small donation.
- inigoesdr 9y ago
  There's a link at the bottom to their open source offerings: https://spatie.be/en/opensource https://spatie.be/en/opensource
- jacurtis 9y ago
  Spatie makes a lot of packages for the Laravel framework. Just think Node.js packages/modules or Ruby Gems. He basically moved from an MIT license to an open license that just asks you to send a postcard to him for whatever personal desire he has.
j_s 9y ago
See also: ShonenWare http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/License.html http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/License.html > To register simply go out and buy any CD, record, or tape by Shonen Knife, listen to it carefully, and e-mail me your impressions of the album
superb_herb 9y ago
I don't understand what software they are offering for a postcard?
- corobo 9y ago
  Packages for the Laravel PHP framework https://github.com/spatie https://github.com/spatie
Psilidae 9y ago
My favorite fitness app, Caledos Runner, is Postcardware! Unfortunately, even though it's a fitness app, I've been too lazy to send the postcard. Maybe I'll do that sometime soon. https://api.caledos.com/ https://api.caledos.com/ https://i.imgur.com/oxAWU2j.png https://i.imgur.com/oxAWU2j.png

26 points by Mojah 9y ago

tmaly 9y ago

What is free to use? I am not sure what the site is for.

snuxoll 9y ago
The details are hidden at the bottom, most of the repositories spatie has on github have a postcardware statement in the readme, similar to this. Postcardware You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using. Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium. We publish all received postcards on our company website. It's cute, they don't demand anything causing licensing issues while having some fun with the postcard thing. Kind of reminds me of SDF's option to verify your account with a postcard instead of a small donation.
inigoesdr 9y ago
There's a link at the bottom to their open source offerings: https://spatie.be/en/opensource https://spatie.be/en/opensource
jacurtis 9y ago
Spatie makes a lot of packages for the Laravel framework. Just think Node.js packages/modules or Ruby Gems. He basically moved from an MIT license to an open license that just asks you to send a postcard to him for whatever personal desire he has.

j_s 9y ago

See also: ShonenWare http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/License.html http://www.proxomitron.info/45/help/License.html > To register simply go out and buy any CD, record, or tape by Shonen Knife, listen to it carefully, and e-mail me your impressions of the album

superb_herb 9y ago

I don't understand what software they are offering for a postcard?

corobo 9y ago
Packages for the Laravel PHP framework https://github.com/spatie https://github.com/spatie

Psilidae 9y ago

My favorite fitness app, Caledos Runner, is Postcardware! Unfortunately, even though it's a fitness app, I've been too lazy to send the postcard. Maybe I'll do that sometime soon. https://api.caledos.com/ https://api.caledos.com/ https://i.imgur.com/oxAWU2j.png https://i.imgur.com/oxAWU2j.png