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by jaxbot 2495 days ago
If I make project Foo, which leverages #Script, and make Foo MIT-licensed, by your statement #Script is now also MIT licensed in this project. So then Company Blah wants to use Foo, which happens to just be thin wrapper/modification around #Script, and is now permitted to take it and fork it into closed-source repos, yes? That is what this statement implies.

Regardless, this is why getting clever with software licenses, and giving guarantees in the form of comments instead of actual license legalese, is problematic. The intention might be clear, but the governance is only by law, and this appears to be in conflict with your statements.
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TAForObvReasons 2495 days ago
More broadly, "clever" software licenses really hamper adoption. Even if it's not exactly AGPL and it has lots of exceptions, the mere mention is enough to scare off many developers and companies.
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mythz 2495 days ago
Then forget this OSS license option even exists, which you're never going to use unless you build a custom distribution of ServiceStack without a commercial license. The AGPL/FLOSS license exists to allow free usage in OSS projects without needing to pay for a commercial license.

Regardless #Script is unrestricted and free under the commercial license, which is what all official ServiceStack NuGet packages are released under.

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mythz 2495 days ago
ServiceStack's usage in OSS projects is covered in its License: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/lic...

i.e. It can be used as AGPL as-is, in addition it can be used in OSS projects under that license (to enable compatibility with the project) provided that the OSS Software remains OSS and provides complete source code for any additions. Although this AGPL/FLOSS Exception License only applies when you're creating your own distributions of ServiceStack from source code (i.e. very rare). This dual license option was added to allow OSS projects to use ServiceStack for free without paying for a commercial license, if that's not you, you can ignore this license option even exists.

All ServiceStack packages on NuGet are released under the commercial license [1] of which only requires a developer license when it exceeds the free usage quotas [2] which are only in ServiceStack commercial products namely the ServiceStack Web Service Framework, OrmLite [3], ServiceStack.Redis [4] and PocoDynamo [5]. All other ServiceStack Software inc. all client libraries, inc. Serialization and ServiceStack.Common (containing #Script) are unrestricted libraries which can be used for free without a commercial Developers license in both commercial/non-commercial projects.

[1] https://servicestack.net/terms

[2] https://servicestack.net/download#free-quotas

[3] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite

[4] https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Redis

[5] https://github.com/ServiceStack/PocoDynamo#pocodynamo

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