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But then it wouldn't be open-source anymore, would it? Making the willingness of people to contribute likely much smaller. You don't really have the safety of h
by cube2222 2y ago
But then it wouldn't be open-source anymore, would it? Making the willingness of people to contribute likely much smaller. You don't really have the safety of having an easy way to fork either, if all you can fork is a 2-year old version (which plugins are likely not compatible with anymore).
It would also (deservedly) likely anger a large part of the existing community, especially the ones most involved, like plugin authors, who put their time in assuming their contributing to an open-source ecosystem.
Thus, I believe that ship has sailed the moment they made it open-source in the first place.
- austhrow743 2y agoMy understanding of their comment is that the source is made available immediately. It’s just that you need to pay for a license to use it for the first couple years.
- cube2222 2y agoYes, and open-source and source-available are two different things. The comment I responded to suggested they switch to a source-available license which falls back to an open-source license after a time period passes.