![]() ![]() It doesn't prevent you from selling it as SaaS, I could sell vanilla Mattermost as a service under AGPL, my selling point might be that I provide high reliability and excellent support.ĭo you have an example of that dual license? In other words - you can't sell SaaS based on AGPL software + proprietary secret sauce, you have to share back your secret sauce with all users. You can provide the software as a service BUT you have to give the source code to all users, including your modifications if you have made any. GPL doesn't allow such additional clauses.ĭisclosure: IANAL. Say for example some one can specify the following for their project: "We provides the project under the terms of MIT for you to modify and run for your own purposes." This might look a harmless statement, but it could mean something very different and may be intentionally written, that essentially makes it non-free. Software pieces using GPL licenses can't add additional restrictions to the software, but of course authors are free to dual license under different terms. The modified source code can be provided only to the people whom you gave the binary (Edit: AGPL has bit more terms, as said in comment below), and you can make it private to the rest of the world (though you can't add additional restrictions).Īs Mattermost is dual licensed under AGPL, anyone who uses it under the terms of AGPL can live safe as long as they obey AGPL. You are free to fork, and not share the changes. Which means as long as you don't intend to fork it and not share your changes you should be fine. > Ultimately if you're okay with running AGPL code you're okay with running Mattermost. So that means, only the binary provided by Mattermost is MIT, not its source code, the usage of 'MIT' in their website sounds deceiving. Plugin/ and all subdirectories thereof) under the Apache License v2.0. by contacting are licensed to use the source code in Admin Tools and Configuration Files (templates/, config/default.json, model/, Under a commercial license available from Mattermost, Inc. Under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU AGPL v.3.0, subject to the exceptions outlined in this policy orĢ. You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. See MIT-COMPILED-LICENSE.md included in compiled versions for details ![]() You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform produced by Mattermost, Inc. The mattermost-server licensing is somewhat skeptic: ![]()
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