cordova-admob-pro

That's entirely false. The plugin offers three license options. https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic... > 3. Win-win partnership > And, if you don't have enough money yet to get a license, or don't have a PayPal account, here is another flexible option worth considering, no need to pay a cent. We may call it partnership. > We maintain, support, and version update for any plugin issues, you don't worry about its update or bugfix, just use it for free, and focus on your app or game logic. > Ship our code with yours to end-user, no need paying a cent at all, instead, share 2 percent ad traffic, so that we can both benefit and cover our cost to maintain and enhance this project. The problem is the plugin author silently raised that "share 2 percent ad traffic" to 30%.

> Read the license of what you're using Here's the license: https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas... It's MIT. Here's what they say "If you have used this plugin for FREE but monetized more than $1000, you are also required to get a license, or share us some Ad traffic as stated in win-win partnership model below" If the MIT license is correct, they are lying: people don't need to get a license. The users already have a license that covers absolutely everything and they even have the right to edit the plugin to remove the % cut altogether. Other things they are lying about, in their wiki https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic... "Reminder: copy the code, change a plugin name, without feature enhancement, then publish to npm, is not allowed." This is just false. The existing MIT license absolute

The only thing plugin users agreed to was the LICENSE, which is actually MIT! https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...

What part of this license says they owe 30% and don't have the right to just use the software? https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...

From their license agreement: > If you have used this plugin for FREE but monetized more than $1000, you are also required to get a license, or share us some Ad traffic as stated in win-win partnership model below. https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic... The project however includes the following the license: https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas... Surely releasing code under an MIT license makes their statement invalid. Why would I be "required to get a license" and offered a couple of commercial options? It sounds like they need to get some legal help to properly license the project in the way they want to. Furthermore, pricing should be clear. It's deceptive to hide it within their so-called "license" section. As a developer, why would I read the license section if it's clearly marked wit

"never claimed to be free software" and "explicitly disclaims being Open Source" don't cancel out that he published it with an open-source MIT license. https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...

https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas... > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files

The terms are not clearly stated, the explicit LICENSE document https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas... offers a standard MIT license, unlike the wiki description.

AdMob Pro has the exact same license (https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/blob/mas...) and I see no reason whatsoever why someone using a product named "AdMob Pro" would be unable to use it as free and open source without support, certainly the name of the product does not influence that. The author has written their license poorly in a stupid manner that allows everyone to use their product for free - that's why lawyers are useful and why for small developers it's a very good recommendation to use one of standard licenses instead of trying to write their own from scratch. As of now, perhaps due to the author's legal incompetence, the license also allows free usage for commercial purposes.

> Kindly reminder, do not use a fake license key or a license key from others, do not share your license key with others. Abuse of the license key may cause negative impact. [0] This is the closest it gets to calling out the the 30% but I agree, it should be clearer. [0] https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic...

I'm confused, where in the license does it give them the permission to randomly assign an ad-share percentage? This seems highly suspect, and probably illegal in most jurisdictions. In fact, reading the actual license agreement here https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic... seems to suggest that they will stop serving ads, not randomly start increasing ad share.

Yes, a good point. He should update the license (https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro/wiki/Lic...) to state from 2% up to 30%.