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Consider whether you might want to release it as AGPL3, and offer a proprietary license for a fee. That prevents a private company from forking a closed source
by appleflaxen 3y ago
Consider whether you might want to release it as AGPL3, and offer a proprietary license for a fee.
That prevents a private company from forking a closed source version without paying you.
- pollux01 3y agoI thought the community hates AGPL3. I'm not sure why forking and setting env varaible as OPEN_SOURCE=true would be a hard thing to do.
- appleflaxen 3y agoThey do, because many in HN are entrepreneurs building platforms that don't want to open source their products that incorporate your code. What authors don't realize is that they can still do that if you let them pay for a non GPL version.
- pollux01 3y agoI made it AGPL3 after your suggestion. Now everyone is happy I suppose