3 ms·
From what I understood (surveyed this a while ago) RavenDB wants commercial clients to pay. They do this by licensing the free version as agpl. You pay to get a
by aliswe 8y ago
From what I understood (surveyed this a while ago) RavenDB wants commercial clients to pay. They do this by licensing the free version as agpl. You pay to get another license. Keeping your code agpl as a commercial entity is a kind of loophole in their eyes.
So they keep commercial clients out by using agpl. That means they want you to pay even if you build a website that uses a cms that uses ravendb. Even though agpl perhaps would let you get sway with it. Dont think so though.
- gmueckl 8y agoAs I see it the licensing of RavenDB lets you get away with things like a closed source CMS using the DB for your own use, as long as the database runs as its own process. Not sure of you could sell the CMS binaries without source code, though.
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoYou can if you distribute separately and the CMS binaries aren't embedding the DB software. You would ship an installer for the AGPL portion to comply with those terms, and your CMS would use a REST interface to interact with the AGPL-licensed backend