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This is the one that you can't use for commercial projects?
by bengale 8y ago
This is the one that you can't use for commercial projects?
- goloroden 8y agoYou can, as long as you open-source your commercial project's source code, according to the AGPL 3.0 license. If you don't want to do this, you need to get an enterprise license, which does not neccessarily mean to buy one: There are other options as well (sponsored development, …). For details, please contact us directly using hello@thenativeweb.io PS: I'm one of the core developers of wolkenkit.
- bengale 8y agoInteresting. I briefly looked at this a few weeks back and didnt look much further when I saw the box listing enterprise agreement or something like that for commercial use. I’ll take another look!
- hbbio 8y agoVery funny, since we tried this... 6 years ago. At the time, HN reaction was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931525 And you know what? It was true. We changed the licensing to MIT for most of Opa (http://opalang.org http://opalang.org), but maybe a bit too late.
- goloroden 8y agoBut what other options than going dual-license do you have if you want to do open-source in a sustainable way? MIT does offer nothing here, unfortunately.
- hbbio 8y agoThere are many good business opportunities if your open source technology, without strings attached, gets popular. You could just sell professional support as part of subscriptions and verified builds. Later on, when you release a new version, you can still support the previous one or build migration tools that you include with subscriptions, etc.