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Thank you for building this - it appears to solve a real problem that has been a pain in my butt for a couple of years. What are the plans for funding the proj

• xenoscopic 5y ago
  To be totally transparent: funding is a bit of an open question, although there's no risk of Mutagen disappearing in the short term. Mutagen was actually part of YC's S19 batch, and it still has a significant amount of runway from that, but also some revenue from contracting work. I really want to keep as much of Mutagen as FOSS as possible, ideally MIT licensed. I did just add a small portion of code under the SSPL, which I might experiment with dual licensing to SaaS embedders of Mutagen (since it's really only useful in cases where Mutagen is being embedded in other tooling), but even that I wanted to keep open source for other FOSS projects embedding Mutagen. In the near term, I have some ideas about plugins and tooling that I want to build on top of Mutagen that will probably be closed source, but those will be separate entities from Mutagen itself and the aim will be to avoid compromising on any functionality that belongs in the core of Mutagen.