> Any reason? .. I thought it would be commercial friendly? after all > you guys are backed by Y combinator.
There's nothing intrinsically commercial-unfriendly about the GNU AGPL; it just requires that modified code also be released under the AGPL. For some commercial enterprises this is fine, since the value of a website is often the brand and community, rather than the source code. (Large chunks of many successful websites are already open source, including the entire reddit codebase.) Of course, some businesses may want to keep their source code private (to protect proprietary information, for example). We are preparing to offer Insoshi under a commercial license for those cases. This business model may sound familiar: it's essentially the dual-license model pioneered by MySQL (which offers its software under both the GNU GPL and under a commercial license). By adopting this model, we hope to be able to support more developers to work on Insoshi than would be possible using a more permissive license (such as the MIT license). Adopting the MIT license would in one sense be friendlier for commercial enterprises, who could then use our code without restriction (or payment), but under those circumstances we would cease to be a startup and would be at most a consulting firm. (There's nothing wrong with consulting firms, but startups must be product businesses, since consulting doesn't scale well as you add users.) Moreover, in that case we would be less able to afford continued development of Insoshi, which would ultimately be quite unfriendly to our users. > Also as I understand some of the code are from "Lovd by Less". We do have a small amount of Lovd code, which is licensed under the MIT license. Actually, we only use one method, the 'to_safe_uri' method from less_monkey_patching. We expected to use more, but the conventions used in the Lovd code are not quite compatible with Insoshi. (The one feature they have that we lack, a photo album, has already been added in a branch from a contributor; starting tomorrow I'll begin work on integrating that branch, which also contains numerous user experience improvements.) Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Insoshi developer site: http://dogfood.insoshi.com/ Insoshi documentation: http://docs.insoshi.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Insoshi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/insoshi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
