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The license was moved, sending an email to support@cloudron.io for this was the correct suggestion ( thanks @robi )

This is possibly a bug, but in general we don't completely test as to what gets enabled/disabled when subscriptions expire. It's quite rare that people keep their servers around when subscription expires. But I will test things out when we cut a new release.

@girish said in Cloudron Licence:

I have fixed the year in the license.

As for the license itself, the platform code is not opensource or free software if that is what you are wondering. We contribute to opensource in other ways both financially and with development - https://www.cloudron.io/opensource.html . The license text is an adaptation of various other licenses like GitLab EE, Sourcegraph EE license etc.

All our app packages are opensource. All the code is at https://git.cloudron.io/

I would like Cloudron to be released under a Free Licence. I am sure I am not alone in this.

I feel uneasy about it being non-Free. It feels like the rug could be pulled out from underneath at any moment. It is not that I think that Cloudron might "turn evil", but that pressure could be brought to bear on the maintainers, and in that way infrastructure built on Cloudron could be cancelled.

Is there any hope that Cloudron might be re-releaed under a Free licence?

@nebulon Perfect, thank you!

@ruihildt Great take on it.

As an aside: There's other ways to contribute towards open-source, than with code or money.

Just using it and reporting issues and feature suggestions is also free labour, that closed-source projects would have to pay for, same for security-testing.

The way I see it is, I pay for things with my time, attention, faith, and opportunity-cost, and risk-taking. If I was making money from something, then I also pay with money.

There's many ways to be a free user and benefit a project, this whole community is also a great example of that symbiotic relationship.

@girish said in Migrating the license:

If the domain name changes, we will have to do this by hand on our side.

nope, the main domain didn't change 😉

@girish said in Migrating the license:

we might have some license file that you can export/import

if you are happy with this kind of license and user are happy, why not keeping it that way 😉

Thank for your explanation and replied.