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As per Boris Mann's request , I am writing this short concept article.

I recently wrote some modules for a client. The normal way I work on these types of assignments is for me to retain copyright on the code, as well as give them them a copy (after all, this is PHP, and they have the source).

I also ask that I have the right to:

a) Sell the modules to other paying customer

b) Release the modules under the GPL license to the community

Sometimes, the client asks for a favor that I do not release certain functionality for everyone, because it makes their site less unique. As a courtsey, I often entertain this request.

Because I see the modules as useful to others, I then ask that a basic functionality version be released to the community. This does not have the extended features that I wrote for the client, yet is still useful to the community.

I can still sell the full featured extended version to paying customers.

This way, everyone wins: the community gets a base to build on, I get to sell it to others AND release a version under the GPL, and the client has a business edge.

Compared to the alternatives, it is the best solution to all. If we are not to release anything the community is deprived of it, and something is better than nothing.

Of course, this assumes that the module is totally new development that I did, and not based on any other GPL code, otherwise, the GPL takes precedence and all changes have to be made available to all.

Drupal, with its many content management and community features (forums, blogs, books, upload, etc.), provides some basic functionality as an elearning tool. While Drupal excels at it's primary purpose as open, social community software, it lacks the basic privacy features necessary for examinations and evaluations of student work in an elearning context. That is, until the evaluation module.

Drupal is built using PHP.

Here is an interesting piece of trivia: PHP is now 10 years old.

Thanks Rasmus, Zeev and Andy and thousands of others for such a simple, powerful and successful platform to build web applications on.

This may sound like a nitpick, but this is just honest feedback.

Shouldn't the blurb text read something like "Read the Drupal Newsletter"? instead of "Read all about the Drupal Newsletter". The current one doesn't sound too professional.

I also have an alternate suggestion: Why not something like:

--------Drupal Drops Newsletter------------
-------Fresh off the press monthly-------
-----------Sign up-------------------(link to drupal.org/newsletter)
-----------Read the latest issue------------(link to current issue)