Hello,
 Just came across this project via your HN. I posted a response there about not considering this open source, while being advertised as open s

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2024-05-12 15:00:12

Hello, Just came across this project via your HN. I posted a response there about not considering this open source, while being advertised as open source, so I thought I'd expand on that here.

While the license is Apache 2.0, a widely accepted open source license, you've added a range of additional terms to this, some of which I believe may go against the commonly regarded open source definition (OSD). My specific queries in regard to the licensing are as follows:

From the code, how do we know what's a paid of free feature? Can that change without change to the project? Can the project be used without that code? Such code under this term wouldn't generally be considered open source due to the limitation on modification.

Unless provided with a written agreement or permission, no persons are permitted to redistribute another paid version of Dokploy.

This goes against point 1 of the OSD. Being able to re-sell and re-distribute is a pretty fundemental right of both open source and free software.

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