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Re:Gumroad is now open source by rustc on Friday April 04, 2025 @01:39PM (#43585556)
There's no guarantee that a commercial license will be available at a reasonable fee, or available at all. You'll have nothing to negotiate with because the alternative is to rewrite or shut down immediately.
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Re:Gumroad is now open source by InsomniacL on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @04:36AM (#43630082)
Isn't that true of anything?

At renewal software provider X might hike license fees for Y to an unreasonable fee, or decide you're not worth the time at all.

I assume you can get a commercial license at any point, not only after you reach X revenue too?

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Re:Gumroad is now open source by rustc on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @06:34AM (#43630664)
It's true for proprietary software yes. The title of this post was "Gumroad is open source" (which has now been fixed).
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