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No. You sell additional premium extension to provide needed left out of the open-source offering. You sell cloud hosting and on prem hosting. There is nothi
by ThinkBeat 6y ago
No.
You sell additional premium extension to provide needed
left out of the open-source offering.
You sell cloud hosting and on prem hosting.
There is nothing at all wrong with that.
That you have built a business where you
make a living from software you wrote is
awesome. I wish I could.
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- Cu3PO42 6y agoGiven that the main software is AGPL, the extensions would also be open source.
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- clarkevans 6y ago> Given that the main software is AGPL, the extensions would also be open source. This is not necessarily true. If you are the sole copyright owner, you can have your main product be AGPL and sell proprietary extensions; there's no reason why you need to enforce your copyright against yourself. Alternatively, your combined product could be under a proprietary license that is not the AGPL.
- nemiah 6y agoYes, the extensions are AGPL also.
- NoThisIsMe 6y agoYes. It's right there in bold: the customer is provided with the source code of the extension when they purchase it. So long as the user is free to study, modify, and distribute this source code, then it's FOSS.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoMaybe it's just because the interface is a shop? Or because the extensions are automatically packaged.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> You sell additional premium extension ...which are open source.
- system2 6y agoI think open source doesn't matter. Any open ecommerce application has premium opensource extensions (magento, woocommerce, opencart etc.) I think the irritation is that the author made it sound like he is giving everything for free and gets donations to survive.
- berkes 6y agoShe never implied this in the article. What sentence or word choice made you think she lives off donations?