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Great project. Thanks for sharing, and cool you chose to open source some / all of it. That said...
Are the paid features open source too? If so, then it's really open source.
If the paid features are not open source, then the project does not grant the 4 freedoms the FSF requires to recognize the project as open source.
This is commonly known as open core (or open washing?).
I'm not giving advice on what you should do, I'm only pointing out a possible incoherence between what you say and what you made.
Thanks for the reply! And good question. Yes, all code, including all paid features are open source too. Not just open core. There's nothing proprietary. Some of the paid features are gated behind a license check, but it's all part of the same repo and MIT licensed. It's all there to inspect or fork if you want. The perpetual license however helps support development and gives the convenience of a ready-made build.
We actually moved recently from GPLv3 to MIT to be fully permissive.
Can you explain how this is a good thing for users ? From my own (admittedly limited) understanding of licenses, the main difference between GPL and MIT is that MIT allows freeriding off open source project by making closed-source forks.
Sure, my original thought was that GPLv3 would ensure that contributions/forks would at least remain open. Which seems novel, but 1) Realistically I probably wouldn't have any way to enforce it, and 2) GPL is terrible for businesses, and might block genuine contributors. E.g. a company who wants to write an internal plugin/extension, would be forced to open-source it under GPL, which might not be feasible. So they either don't use/contribute at all, or might build it themselves from scratch. Especially with AI these days, code is cheap and its easy to "reproduce" entire codebases in a fraction of the time. MIT just simplifies, and makes it fully permissive instead.
Honorable for real
This is great, you got yourself a new customer!
Local-only and fully FOSS, I truly appreciate it!
I'll subscribe as soon as I get on my rig!
Thank you! Appreciate that. Would love to hear your thoughts when you get to spin it up!
Looking at the project, the paid features are paywalled even if you spin it up yourself
Correct. But all code is there, so you can fork them out yourself if you want.
Hol'up. "All code is there" after one pays to access it, you mean?
edit: Ah, it feels like that other place, where downvotes are kbarbarians' impotent ire. The perfect environment for valid questions. Love to see it.
No, he means you can remove the paywall by modifying the code. This is app is both paid and fully FOSS. Please support him if you can. We need more apps and devs like this.
Exactly. Thank you!
Thanks for the clarification. The comment thread at the time read a little wonky. My bad. 🤌🏼
hell ya we do