Heads up: Nocodb is no longer open source.
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Beware: The latest release/update changes the license.
https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/discussions/12891
They're moving to a Sustainable Use License.
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Thanks for heads up. It’s a switch to „source available“ and technically similar to a BUSL license.
Same applies to e.g Hashicorp Vault, n8n, etc. on Cloudron as mentioned before. Other examples with similar licenses are MongoDB, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Redis…
What is not allowed anymore: If you‘re running Cloudron and let your users use NocoDB (and even let the, pay for such access / use), you‘re making available the software as a service - in direct competition to NocoDB itself, btw, who provide such paid access / use themselves.
Sad to read why it happened here (from your link), partly because AI makes it so easy:
Bad actors take our work and sell it as their own, with no intention of complying with AGPLv3. Our engineers have been consulted innumerable times now to help on what appear to be private forks, where code that should be open remains hidden. The approach itself has been so maligned that they withheld that its a private fork until the last moment. And it is not only small players. Companies with significant resources, backed by reputable investors, have chosen this path too. We have prompted them about the license. It has been of no use. With the advent of coding LLMs, exploitation no longer requires any technical skill for a repo. It requires only bad intention. The burden of proving, fighting, and funding that battle falls entirely upon us.
