"vvvv can be used freely without any limitations for the following purposes:

Evaluation

Non-commercial use

FOSS development

Contribution development

Teaching and learning vvvv"

For all other cases you go to https://store.vvvv.org/ .

Basically, a classic case of trying to use the opensource monika for marketing purposes, whilst trying to retain the ability to make money off the popularity when/if it does happen.

That's why if an "opensource" software does not use one of the standard OSS approved licenses, it is just shareware by another name.

Just fyi, the word is moniker, not monika.

I keep making that same error =D

The same erra

They've been doing this since the late nineties or so. I think they consider their licensing model proven to work for them by now.

> Basically, a classic case of trying to use the opensource monika for marketing purposes,

vvvv does not claim anywhere to be open source.

> whilst trying to retain the ability to make money off the popularity when/if it does happen.

vvvv has been around for about 25 years. I would suggest to do a bit more research before jumping to conclusions.

BTW, they do open source quite a few components under proper OSS licenses: https://github.com/vvvv