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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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We don't need that around here, 10PM to 7AM electricity is half price. Sunday all day as well. That's about all I need to know.
Good project though ๐. See if you can make it completely free of charge (without paying those 5 euros).
By saying that it cost around 5โฌ I meant that the material to build this cost me around 5โฌ. I would happily set them up for free if one gave me the material for free, but the microcontroller and so on do cost some money.
The API and (of course) the source code are free (as in freedom, being AGPL licensed). And since I did my best to document it well and provide easy to follow instructions in the README, I do think I managed to make it free as in freedom.
Oh, sorry, didn't understand it like that ๐... thought that was the price of the license for the library ๐.
Of course, the parts come at a price, no surprise there ๐.
Free as in freedom, not free beer. Its understandable why a dev might do that.
That is what I was implying as well. If it's open source, it doesn't mean it's free (as in freedom). Make it free (as in freedom), which would imply that it doesn't have to cost anything, if you have the knowhow.