Why Open Core Licensing Sucks!!
Open-core or partially proprietary licensing model is worse than fully proprietary licensing model
- Track: Legal and Policy Issues devroom
- Room: H.2213
- Day: Saturday
- Start: 13:00
- End: 13:50
Newer open source projects are embracing "Open Core" licensing model, where key parts of the software are restricted under a proprietary license. This model is deceiving and worse than a fully proprietary licensing model. This talk discusses the threats of open core model and how to successfully build a fully free commercial software.
It has become a trend to start as fully open source project until it reaches a critical mass adoption and then switch to a partially proprietary model. Typically, management user interface or some high-end features are restricted to commercial customers. Open source community is treated like a bunch of hackers and hobbyists. There isn't a really good reason to adopt open core model.
- Proprietary vs Open Core vs Open Source vs Free Software
- How to commercialize Free software?
- How to get venture funding and still stay Open source?
- Impact of GNU (A)GPL vs Apache License for commercial software?
Speakers
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Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy |