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It's so great the whole code is available under the MIT license.

After seeing many open source projects with paid services going for more protective licenses, like the AGPL or the newer eventually open licenses (i.e. Business Source License), I wonder what was your rationale to still pick the MIT.



thanks! we're big fans of open source so wanted as permissive licence as possible.

one of the things we spend a lot of time thinking about is how to make our project sustainable while still being as open as possible in everything we do.

a bit more details in this post "How to pay your rent with your open source project" https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding


It's all fun and games until someone spins up a competitive hosted service using your MIT licensed codebase.


And ..... they've switched to AGPL.




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