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Re:OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Mi... by FailMore on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:04AM (#48814535)
I posted the same thing below, but I’m open for feedback on the license. I’ve put a lot of work in and I think there is a commercial pathway forward for the product. I don’t want to let someone else - who might be more experienced re commercialisation - take everything I’ve done and build a business with it (I’d really like to do that myself), so wasn’t sure what license to use as MIT didn’t feel right to me at the moment. But open for feedback/maybe I’m being too short sighted…
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Re:OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Mi... by tchalla on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:20AM (#48814650)
I don’t see why your license should be open source. It’s alright what you have.
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Re:OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Mi... by Semaphor on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:03AM (#48815262)
Personally, I like the elastic (and similar) license… as long as, as you did, it’s chosen upfront. Being open source as a marketing strategy and later switching to source available licenses is what I find highly [0] problematic.

[0]: With a bit of an understandable carve out if it turns out no one else ever contributed anything of significance.

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Re:OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Mi... by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:08AM (#48815734)
> so wasn’t sure what license to use as MIT didn’t feel right to me at the moment

You're onto the right track if you have plans for commercialisation.

Thanks for building this, I've tested it out and it's useful.

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