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GoKnot is an open project. The only purpose for its author, besides that I need it myself, is that as many people as possible use it and like it. If we all understand that registering is important, we will all create a community. Users may suggest what they want to see in future versions, and they will find skilled people ready to work in their ideas, if that people obtains something for their work. Nobody gets rich writing Go software. It is fair to get payed when you are working for the others. E.g. If you work in a translation, you already understand what you read, why should you spend days making that information available to others? When you write a manual, its not because you need it.  The mechanism to verify that there are no weird intentions cannot be simpler: If you add value to GoKnot by creating something the community needs: a forum, a translation or an engine. you place a registration link in your website together with the product. You cash the registration fee. In the main GoKnot website, the complete list of "official" registering sites will be public. E.g.: If someone translates it into Danish. The GoKnot website will make clear that there is a Danish version and link to the Danish download site. The Danish documentation will have the registration links pointing to the Danish translator's PayPal account. Danish users will reward the Danish translator, its fair. The Danish translator will forward 50% of the registration fee to the author. All registered users get exactly the same treatment, no matter how they registered. When you register, you make part of a project that grows. Bear in mind that, just as I have published some GoKnot sources (gke, textures, cgd dialogs and resources), I could open the source code of other parts (e.g. the Telnet client) if a group of skilled people wanted to do a serious work on it, in the benefit of us all. Don't imagine GoKnot is not free software because its a great business. Its not free software, mainly because I don't believe in free software. What would taxi drivers think if University professors spent the money of the tax payers driving passengers for free just because it doesn't cost anything to them? What do the passengers think when the professors drop them ten miles away of their destination, just because they don't care about what the passenger wants? What do you think when the professor argues: "I gave the passenger the blueprints of the taxi. He could have built his own freely modified cab and drive home by himself, it's not my problem."? Under GoKnot opportunities, I have grouped four areas of work. Nevertheless, "creating textures" is an exception. (Textures are bitmap materials, such as: red wood, cedar, marble, etc.) I do not include creating textures in the category "adding value to GoKnot" as mentioned above. Current GoKnot textures have been modified by myself from Public Domain materials. Creating textures is open because: It is fair to return to the Public Domain something that includes PD materials and because it is fun.
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