What is Binpress?
Binpress is a software marketplace and discovery service for source-code.
We want to help software development projects and ventures to complete faster and reduce costs, while focusing on their unique problem domain. On the other hand, professional developers can turn their source-code library into another source of income.
You can read about how we see open-source and commercial software fit together as commercial open-source on our blog.
Back to topWhat is our business model?
We take a commission of 30% out of each sale made on Binpress. Our motto is that we want to be a part of the success of our developers - we do not charge any kind of fee for publishing on the service. To read more about how we determine the commission rate, click here.
Back to topWho are we?
Binpress was conceived and produced by Lionite Internet Ventures. We have been building web ventures for several years, and have extensive experience with the entire production cycle for web applications.
Having accumulated ourselves a significant library of source-code we have been reusing in our own projects, we set out to build a platform that could benefit both professional developers and up-and-coming Internet ventures.
Back to topLicensing
If you never used a commercial license for software you sold previously, have no fear - we provide full explanations in lay-man terms, as well as an interactive license generator that covers all of the terms used in most software licenses.
You can also use our license generator for your own purposes, in order to create legally binding and comprehensive licenses for source code you sell outside of the platform.
Back to topCopyright and IP
Copyright of IP (intellectual property) is a serious matter. Please be certain that you own all the copyright for source code you publish on Binpress, or have the appropriate license(s) to release it. When publishing works which are derivative of / include other works, please specify all the software licenses the original works were released under. When in doubt, please send us an Email to legal@binpress.com.
Back to topComponent approval
Once a component is ready to be published, it needs to be approved by our staff (and later, our users). When you submit a component for approval you can ask for advice on details you are not sure about - such as the documentation or pricing.
Read more about our publishing guidelines.
Back to topContact us
If you have a question that was not answered on this page, or you want to send us feedback / suggestions or any other kind of correspondence, please use the contact form or send us an Email to support@binpress.com. We appreciate and value your input.