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I still haven't exhausted the multitude of open-source modules here on drupal.org, and I don't think I soon will. But I was wondering: aren't there any commercial modules for Drupal available? Is there a collection or a directory of them somewhere? Or isolated examples of commercial modules?
Ludo
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Still looking. Does anyone
Still looking. Does anyone know of any commercial Drupal modules?
Ludo
Planyo reservation system
Hello,
I have the opposite problem. We do have a commercial module, Planyo online booking system but I can't seem to find where I can submit the module for Drupal users. The module itself is GPL-based but its use practically requires a paid account at planyo.com
More about the module here.
Best regards,
Rafael Zwiegincew
planyo.com
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Depending on the implementation, GPL modules that interface with paid services are perfectly allowable on drupal.org. Mollom is one such example. See http://drupal.org/licensing/faq, in particular http://drupal.org/licensing/faq#q10, for more info.
userpoints has commercial extensions
Here is an isolated example: http://drupal.org/project/userpoints (I have not used it myself.)
Surprizing... Drupal is so
Surprizing... Drupal is so highly acclaimed, used by so many organizations and institutions. Has there really been nobody (except the lone example given here) who wrote commercial modules for this big market??? Mind you: I'm not encouraging this at all, I'm just interested to know what's available - if anything.
Ludo
Hi Ludo, It "seems" to me
Hi Ludo,
It "seems" to me that all commercial Drupal business is based on website development. I'm assuming that these businesses would have their own modules, blocks, code, themes, graphics etc that they use for their own projects but don't resell them.
It is an interesting question why there are no commercial modules for Drupal since it is quiet common in Joomla.
Maybe the current high quality of Drupal modules negates any advantage of commercial alternatives?
Maybe Drupal developers are more sharing ... (and see the long term benefits of Open Source) ? ;)
Maybe Drupal (at least in the past) has been used by more technically competent people who don't mind getting their hands a little dirty to get modules to work together?
Maybe Joomla has a larger user base with more potential customers for successful commercial modules?
So Ludo ... do you have some ideas for commercial module(s)?
Regards,
Ray Smith
http://RaymondSmith.com
Ray Smith
http://RaymondSmith.com
commercial enterprise
In my opinion, though Joomla is marketed as an open source CMS, free to all, its main goal is to create an enterprise around the industry of Joomla. Drupal on the other hand seems to be aimed completely at being just a toolset to work with free to all rather than having some enterprising goal of creating a lockdown in the CMS world that will force web developers to pay to play. Just think... if everyone were using Joomla, how long before it makes its money from proprietary modules and themes. I think the people who work with and create for Drupal are minded like the PERL community around CPAN, where you work together to keep 'the man' from owning your industry and help each other solve problems through the fundamentals of modularity. So, rather than it being about your investment capital or willingness to write core boring code... it becomes about your problem solving skills to take whats available and put it to good use.
Business model
Commercial modules are a shaky business model as Drupal and Joomla! modules have to be GPL (http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3510/1/).
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Xe-media will have drupal commercial extensions soon
examples -> drupal site: http://drupal.xe-media.ch/
coming soon...
Yes, here are 3 examples
Three popular tools with Drupal modules...
Magic Zoom - displays a zoomed image to the side of a smaller image (on mouseover). Magic Zoom demo.
Drupal module: http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom_drupal/
Magic Thumb - expands a small image into a big image open click. Magic Thumb demo.
Drupal module: http://www.magictoolbox.com/magicthumb_drupal/
Magic Magnify - enables a magnifying glass when the user hovers over an image. Magic Magnify demo.
Drupal module: http://www.magictoolbox.com/magicmagnify_drupal/
Each image effect is free for non-commercial use or £15 - £25 for commercial use (per website).
The tools are particularly useful for ecommerce sites.
Download the demos!
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Magic Toolbox
www.magictoolbox.com
Out of curiosity, what did
Out of curiosity, what did your lawyer say about the licence for your modules?
As I understand it, your licence isn't legally binding and anyone could redistribute them for free - then again, I have been wrong once or twice :)
In response to "Magic Toolbox" and "no_idea_yet"
no_idea_yet: you are half right. If a module contains any PHP code (which is a given) that code will be subject to the GPL as it is considered a derivative work. Any HTML or CSS that may be included with the module is not subject to the GPL as it is only displayed to the user via the browser and does not get "included" into the Drupal ... Runtime/Framework?
Magic Toolbox: on your website you have a clause attached to your licence information as follows:
6. You may not sell, redistribute or offer for download any of our products in any form or in any medium, whether original or modified or for profit or not.
This is in direct contradiction with the GPL and is a completely invalid clause as your module is bound by the GPL.
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Though this is an old thread, see http://drupal.org/licensing/faq#q7 -- javascript is also not bound by the GPL. So, while the Drupal module is bound by the gpl the javascript is not and can be licensed in any way the creator sees fit.
Droptor, a service using a free module
I know the question is old, but I wanted to mention the tool I created called Droptor. While the module is (and has to be) free, it supports a commercial service:
Module: http://drupal.org/project/droptor
Service: http://www.droptor.com
I guess that is the nature of
I guess that is the nature of Drupal community. We give more and we achieve more.
When you charge for every single module, it is good for your business, but not for the community. It scares people out from the first time they get used to the open source. Also, it promotes the idea of earning money than contributing.
I love Drupal and I believe it will have a very steady and stable growth. Because we contribute modules free of charge, and from that we build better modules. Other developers base on these and produce even better modules. The cycle goes on and on, and we always get better, because the knowledge belongs to the community.
Really, I don't want to see oneday Drupal community is full or module sellers. I think on that day, people would start to leave Drupal.
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its one of the main reasons I left joomla and found drupal in the first place. I tried to build a nonprofit site with the ostensibly open source joomla-- and it ended up costing me a not insignificant amount of actual dollars. Which I probably wouldn't have minded, but even with paying for modules, many were buggy and couldn't be easily debugged due obfuscation and when they weren't obfuscated I wasted hours and hours of my time trying to fix them. Certainly not the expectation when you pay for something. Also, I often found the free modules nothing more than crippled or buggy bate-and-switch fodder for paid options. It made a really really bad impression.
Contrast that with drupal-- where I have no problem, and actually enjoy, contributing my time to help debug stuff and post patches. I even ended up creating and contributing my own modules which would have never happened if I stayed with joomla.
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To answer the original question five years later
Drupal.se is now open and running. You can find dozens of commercial modules listed.
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Yowsa. Sorry, but this site seems shady at best.
Non-starter imo.
And from what I can see so far the 'dozens' of modules available are nothing but pass through links to 3rd party sites like envato (who's extended license is incompatible with the GPL btw). And the moneyscripts guy has been mia and leaving his users in a lurch for over a year now.
What's the point of going there and not to the main site? Other than signing away all rights to the site owner via submission.
changed to reflect GPL
The terms have been changed to reflect the GPLv3 usage of site content.
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I think both the domain names
I think both the domain names drupal.se and drupal.so are in violation of the Drupal trademark, as they appear to be commercial sites.
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