Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams
by cluckindan on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:45AM
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It’s not open source though.
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Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams
by simple10 on Saturday May 03, 2025 @01:07PM
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True. It's dual licensed. Most of the features are available in the self hosted / local version.
Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams
by tinco on Saturday May 03, 2025 @02:15PM
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It's dual licensed in a way, but neither license is open source. The OSI messed up in not coming up with an answer to the SSPL, and now ambitious projects that would have traditionally gone with an open source license like AGPL are now foregoing open source entirely and just slapping a sustainable use license on it.
So yeah, you can use n8n for free, but that doesn't make it open source. It is a source available license.
Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams
by moralestapia on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:36PM
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What's the catch?
You have to pay after some revenue threshold?
Re:N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams
by mdaniel on Saturday May 03, 2025 @01:26PM
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Wow, that's just about the dumbest licensing clause I've ever seen in my life:
> Content of branches other than the main branch (i.e. "master") are not licensed
How the fuck do pull requests work in that setup? Or presumably tags aren't licensed?! Holy shit
Anyway, seems to be some rando made up license https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md#sustain...