Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

Re:Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Sh... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:33PM (#21496411)

Hello, looks like a cool project.

I had a quick read and here is what I picked out:

* I can stand up my own server ( Java REST API + PostgreSQL)

* I then need to update each app to my server URL

* Application source is released under MIT https://github.com/NearbyShops/Nearby-Shops-End-User-Android...

* I require a license to modify them https://nearbyshops.co/pricing.html * I don't think that's compatible with MIT license?

I think this will result in like 20 different apps.. Maybe a better approach would be something along the lines:

* You host a 'cerntal' api, and my instance must register with it. You can handle billing / fees you want to charge me there.

* It will inform the mobile app to connect to my backend when in the area served.

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Re:Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Sh... by e12e on Sunday November 10, 2019 @07:20AM (#21497699)

Eh, yeah that's... Odd:

> What will happen if i dont pay license fee ?

> In such case your use of software for commercial purpose is both unethical and illegal. You wont be receiving any official support in such case. We wont be helping you.

No support is fine - but the source is distributed as MIT... I'm guessing the intent here might be that you're free to change and distribute if you host your own back-end service for the api?

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Re:Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Sh... by sumeetk on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:13AM (#21502325)

Yes its pretty much like that only ... there are multiple local market each self-hosted has their own server ...

And they connect with Central API for user login purposes !

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