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by laurent123456 1569 days ago
If that can be of any help, we've recently updated the Joplin Server license to a "Personal Use License" which disallows commercial use. It is not open source of course, but allows sharing your work while putting some restrictions.

This license was crowdfunded and anybody is free to reuse its text as a base template:

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server...

Also one thing you need to keep in mind, is that if you have such license you'll also need to make sure that anybody who contributes signs a CLA such as this one, otherwise the ownership of the code is not going to be clear:

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server...

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Thanks for sharing Laurent.

I've been searching for information about this subject for the last few days, as my co-founder and I ponder whether open-source can be a viable option to build our product. As two indie hackers bootstrapping, our goal is to create and monetize a SaaS, but we would like to create an open and future-proof solution.