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Re:The open source Mailchimp alternative by pollux01 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:23PM (#36589747)
Yeah! go for it! no problem patching it out!

Right now this was the only method I could come up with to release thing faster. I might think this through a little longer.

Thanks for the feedback :)

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Re:The open source Mailchimp alternative by appleflaxen on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:00PM (#36591829)
Consider whether you might want to release it as AGPL3, and offer a proprietary license for a fee.

That prevents a private company from forking a closed source version without paying you.

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Re:The open source Mailchimp alternative by pollux01 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:44PM (#36594648)
I thought the community hates AGPL3. I'm not sure why forking and setting env varaible as OPEN_SOURCE=true would be a hard thing to do.
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Re:The open source Mailchimp alternative by appleflaxen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:45AM (#36613513)
They do, because many in HN are entrepreneurs building platforms that don't want to open source their products that incorporate your code.

What authors don't realize is that they can still do that if you let them pay for a non GPL version.

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Re:The open source Mailchimp alternative by pollux01 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:15PM (#36595151)
I made it AGPL3 after your suggestion. Now everyone is happy I suppose
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