Comment by Zambyte

2 years ago

So I see the networking portions of the code are Free Software - that's great. How are people expected to use it if their use does not fall under "non-commercial use" as defined in the client license? Do you expect people to write their own clients for commercial use, or do you offer commercial licenses?

For non-commercial use, you're prohibited from selling it, but using it within your organization is permitted

  • You do realize this also means that a for-profit company can’t use the software at all, right?

    Unmodified, modified, whatever.

    I don’t think that was your intent, but that’s exactly how it reads. Or maybe that is your intent?

The idea if you want to sell clients, you need to get a permission form our association.

  • Why not use the GPL?

    • Because we want to provide other organizations with the opportunity to offer paid sync services, we needed to incorporate the concept of a network into the license. We crafted the license with that consideration in mind

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