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Open core is being replaced by "selling exceptions" to AGPL/SSPL/BUSL/FSL. See MongoDB, Elastic, Hashicorp, Redis, etc. Personally I prefer the Adam Jacob trad
by wmf 3y ago
Open core is being replaced by "selling exceptions" to AGPL/SSPL/BUSL/FSL. See MongoDB, Elastic, Hashicorp, Redis, etc.
Personally I prefer the Adam Jacob trademark business model but it's not that proven and it can't be retrofitted.
- pininja 3y agohttps://medium.com/@adamhjk/introducing-the-community-compact-431c61ab978f https://medium.com/@adamhjk/introducing-the-community-compac... for folks wondering what Adam’s buisness model is about
- verdverm 3y agoOP, OpenSearch, OpenTofu all seem to indicate the jury is still out on this one. I still see many smaller projects using open core. Three I started using recently ( llama-index, langfuse, qdrant ) are in this category. There is certainly a difference between AGPL and BUSL style licenses. One of the new projects I'm using as some of their code with a BUSL style, but still open core primarily