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Thank you! Can someone please explain how is the dual license work? Should there be any differentiation in the product, for example, community edition vs enter

• mtmail 6y ago
  Dual license can be on different products, e.g. community edition and then you have extra binaries or plugins which come with a commercial non-open license. But it can also be by use case. MongoDB's has extra requirements for those who run services (database-as-a-service) and thus who compete against MongoDB, the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing Sponsorship is hoping companies rely on your software enough to open their money pockets. Or to have a strategic interest, e.g. by keeping something open/free that a competitor charges money for. https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/ https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
  • johnx123-up 6y ago
    Thank you! Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation? (In HN we read a lot of stories where even donate button is not working well) Also, will people pay for a commercial add-on when the product itself is free? (open core model)
    • zelly 6y ago
      > Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation? That is really a separate issue. If there is no differentiation from its competitors, then it may not be used at all. People aren't generally the customers of dual-licensed software; usually companies that ship proprietary software are the customers. The typical model for dual-licensing is to allow the code to be used in an open source project for free but charge for the code to be used in a proprietary project.