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[Business] Why and How you should Open Source your code - David Cramer

The Swyx Mixtape

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Century's Open Source License

Century was BSD licensed and that was the server itself. The core of the server was like super liberally licensed, everything else was fairly liberally licensed. And so we did this because I did not want an open core model. An open core is here's the version of the open source product that you can use for free no strings attached. Here's the good version that costs minimum $50,000 to $100,000 a year or something along those lines. It becomes this obnoxious selling paradigm. So at that point, we said we're going to change how we do licensing as Century for open source. If it's part of the service, the core service, it becomes

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