Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by djsumdog on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:49AM
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I don't understand. It's still open source. I mean I realize it's boiler plate stuff to keep people from just changing the binaries to remove stuff they don't want, but it's open source. You can just recompile it.
Boiler plate stuff like this really makes me question their commitment to open source.
They really should have just created a commercial or enterprise version, with new features geared towards large businesses available as plugins only for that version (AD/LDAP auth, single signon, more complicated stats, etc. etc.)
It's like they didn't learn from the 90s. Don't start charging for what was free; add new features to the paid version, or for OSS companies, up your commercial support and custom offerings.
Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by stephenr on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:28AM
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How can 3.1a even be included? It's against the terms to discover the source code, that they themselves link to on the page you download from?
Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by mholt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:36PM
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Prohibiting reverse engineering of the binaries is a standard restriction. If prevents not-well-formed copies of the source code being distributed, and as you said, they can just download the source from the repository. :)
Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by kuschku on Saturday September 16, 2017 @07:33AM
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And it’s also completely null and void under EU law anyway, so you might as well remove it.
EDIT: I’ll refer to this historical case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_Inc_v_World_Prog...
Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by mholt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:46AM
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Remember this only applies to official binaries. The EULA itself states it doesn't apply to the source code.
Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by jayrox on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:56AM
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Is that specified somewhere? I mean, I see this in the EULA `READ IT CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION PROCESS AND USING OFFICIAL CADDY BINARIES AND RELATED SOFTWARE COMPONENTS ("Software").` But is there something that specifically says the EULA only applies to official binaries and not the source code or self compiled binaries?
Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses
by mholt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:35PM
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Yes, yes, it's everywhere: the pricing page, the blog post, and the EULA itself says right near the top:
> The open source code of this Software is licensed under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0 and not under this EULA.
3. Restrictions
3.1 You SHALL NOT, and shall not allow any third party, to: