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This project spun out of my startup https://dashborg.net https://dashborg.net and I'm hoping to create a hosted SaaS service out of it with security/authenticat

by sawka 5y ago

This project spun out of my startup https://dashborg.net https://dashborg.net and I'm hoping to create a hosted SaaS service out of it with security/authentication and maybe some other premium features. I don't have that service yet, and I didn't want to get "cloud-poached" before I even had a chance to launch. That being said, I get the concerns. I'll likely re-license the core as vanilla MIT in the future.

jabbany 5y ago
Couldn't a cloud service just get a team to do some clean room reverse engineering to make a similar or even compatible tool without violating copyright? IIRC software licenses are copyright licenses (you can't use the code / make derivatives based on the code) not patents (you can't make a product based on this _idea_).
- sawka 5y ago
  Sure they could, but projects at big companies move so slowly, it would take them months just to staff the team, get a manager, a designer, and project-manager, and engineers assigned :) . Not really trying to restrict it, I want people to use it (even for free)! I just also want to be able to launch my startup
  - leonidasv 5y ago
    If "projects at big companies move so slowly", why are you afraid of being "cloud-poached" then?
    - sawka 5y ago
      Well, they move faster if they take your source code :)
netr0ute 5y ago
Ironic, because getting "cloud-poached" would be one of my end goals.