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0 pointsalibert4y ago0 comments

Yes. No catch. You can host it for you (personal) or your company but you can't host and sell it as SaaS.

Several others projects such as Sentry.io or Zerotier are using this license. Be aware that this license is not considered open source but is more like "source available".

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ensignavenger4y ago· 2 in thread

You also can't pay some one else to host it for you. If you have to fork it for any reason, you will be stuck hosting it yourself, even if there is a large group of folks working together on the fork, everyone will have to host it themselves to use the fork, at least for several years until the code becomes open source. Beware vendor-lock-in.

beagle34y ago

I don’t consider this vendor lock in; more other-vendor lock out. Which is not to say it is necessarily better or worse - it’s just different.

For a company with internal IT or IT capable people, that’s a small hurdle if running the software is not too hard.

For a company with all IT outsourced, this is a deal breaker.

It will likely stop the behemoths (AWS, GC, Azure) from capitalizing on that product though.

helloguillecl4y ago

Thanks!

But does this prevent me from hosting it on say, an instance on Google Cloud?

What's the wording that would prevent that?

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