Wedge

well it loads fine on one server 113 but not on the others, yet oldies said he did not edit any template just a language string in british english.

Just an idea about a price. You could charge a small amount, say $10-20, 100% of which goes to charity[1]. Few would object to you asking for a donation after all the work done and the small amount will not reflect upon the quality of the product as it doesn't go to the 'business'. It would get rid of some of the troublemakers because (as you or Nao posted, and to paraphrase) any price however small puts off people who are useless and complain a lot. And the low amount would not make any expectation regarding the OOP-ness or whatever.

1.	Perhaps a global, uncontroversial  one like UNICEF

I like that idea. I'd probably suggest WWF myself because I like animals, but yeah, that appeals to me.

On the other hand, though, there will come a time when we have to pay for hosting resources and stuff like that and we won't be able to do it out of our own pockets. Let's say, hypothetically, Wedge is uber successful and we need to escalate to a hardcore dedicated server, the cost of which is likely to run into the hundreds per month - that's not a cost we can sustain indefinitely ourselves.

Whatever, I have prepared my instances ready for the fresh installation, I have my ideas though not free to spend hours online in this time around.
Whatever licence you guys are considering, never give those bunches of lazy guys chance to turn your work into personal gain. See also what happened between punbb and fluxbb ( I don't know much though).
After sometimes of reading and testing wedge via user interface I feedback to give... Maybe tomorrow, when I can squeeze out time to boot my pc. I hate typing with mobile phones. Good work here!

What do SMF do? Do those ads pay for everything or do people have to chip in?

I won't give details but suffice to say the ads plus charter membership does cover beyond their costs.

Note: this is quite permissible under an NPO. It just has to be not drawn down as profits as such. Is complicated.

well the NPO is not exactly a not-for-profit just yet, they are registered as one but not with the IRS just yet. hopefully it is something they will look into again in the future.

Wait, they STILL haven't gotten that terribly-difficult 30 page form filled in?

last they looked into it the IRS was not approving such orgs, so it was decided to push it back. but the topic has come up yet again, so progress may be made this time.

@Arantor
Can you please shed more light in the Chartered Membership in SMF? What are the requirements and gains?
Thanks.

$50 per year, access to their private helpdesk as well as access to the Charter members' private board. Before SMF put itself on Github, charter members used to receive pre-release versions of SMF more frequently than the public did but that doesn't happen any more.

Mostly it's just a way for you to officially support them should you want to, because the offerings these days probably aren't worth it (better support publicly for example)

Yeah, the CM support was generally slower than normal support last time I was a member. I just continued to support SM, until they made me a Beta Tester. Then I ran out of money :P

Which is quite a sad indictment of the system, really.

That is true, early on it used to be a pretty nice area to discuss things at. I don't know how it is now days, they removed my access a while back (afaik previously beta testers could access CM boards)