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by gmontard 1207 days ago
That's right, we don't want to have someone doing managed service on top of us without a getting a license (or just an agreement). Basically, it's the AWS vs Elastic case, that resulted in this license.

Happy to revisit the license in the future when we feel more protected, but for now, we've seen so much bad behaviors in this industry with big vendors taking advantages of small companies like ours.

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> …we've seen so much bad behaviors in this industry with big vendors taking advantages of small companies like ours.

Firstly, I have absolutely no problem with your choice of license so don’t take this as a criticism of your project.

What I do take issue with is people releasing software under a “free” license and then complaining about people taking them up on their offer. This isn’t “taking advantage”, this is taking what they are freely giving.

Not taken, just wanted to give the context of why this license.