So I have this project, that I've been working on for a while now(at this writing, ~2 months).

Basically, the goal of the project was to rewrite a system I built earlier so that instead of being ~930 lines of code in one file, it might be 1500 lines spread out and organized accross multiple files. Now that it's nearing completion, however, I'm faced with a dilemna: should I 'release' this project, and sell it to potential buyers, or should I release it to the community, as open-source?

The project is built to be easy/simplistic to maintain, and easy to extend/modify. I've documented it fairly thoroughly inside and outside of it, so that anyone who is tech-savvy enough to create a MySQL database could install it.

It has an install script, which I created, that makes it easy for people to install. It wouldn't be all that difficult(or at least, that was the goal) for someone to add their own mods to it, and use all/some of the core modules, or to change the behaviour of it slightly.

In essence, it's built to be customizable, and I'm proud of it. But I'm still stuck with the issue: Release it, and sell it to potential buyers, or give it to the community, and let them do what they will with it?
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In reply to To Release or To Open-Source? by Spidy

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