Hi everyone, I’m developing an open-source software in Elixir. It’s designed to be self-hosted and free to use. However, I’d like to keep the option open to provide a paid cloud-hosted version in the future. My main concern is ensuring that no one else can start offering their own cloud-hosted ver…

[image] puemos: My main concern is ensuring that no one else can start offering their own cloud-hosted version of my software. I’m exploring the best way to achieve this (Right now I’m using AGPL) and would appreciate any advice. Elastic uses SSPL and is triple-licensing with their own licens…

AGPL do not prevent anyone from running their own cloud service running your software. It cannot prevent such use as otherwise it could not be FSF approved license (it cannot discriminate about a field of endeavour). Beware that such licensing limitation will make this software not open (by OSI def…

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dimitarvp January 5, 2025, 9:29pm 2

Elastic uses SSPL and is triple-licensing with their own license + AGPLv3.

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