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The person I was replying to seemed to be under the impression that n8n used to be open source and now is not. This is not the case, so I pointed that out. Did
by JimDabell 1y ago
The person I was replying to seemed to be under the impression that n8n used to be open source and now is not. This is not the case, so I pointed that out.
Did you have anything to say about my actual comment, or are you just attaching your rant to a random part of the thread?
- victorhooi 1y agoQuoting another poster (wavemode) here... Trivially debunked by looking at their homepage in 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191009000026/https://n8n.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20191009000026/https://n8n.io/
- JimDabell 1y agoThat archived page doesn’t debunk what I am saying, it supports it. > Open Source Alternative for Zapier/tray.io They claimed to be open source… > (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause) …but they were not. The Commons Clause means that it isn’t open source. It’s a commercial restriction. The founder directly said this when discussing it here, the day before that archive was saved: > > This is not open source - it is source available. > Yes you are correct. Wrote an extra section about it here in the docs: https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=license https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=license — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192277
- wavemode 1y agoNo, what I linked to does not show that they used to be open source. It shows that they used to call themselves open source, despite never having been so.