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by necovek 1008 days ago
Thanks for the details.

I am on my phone so couldn't really test it out, but it sounds sufficiently niche that it could both benefit or be harmed by releasing the code.

Usually, the hardest bit is getting the infrastructure set up, so if you do have dozens of intertwined components, just pushing the code might not really help anyone.

Still, I think it depends on the business you have and market you are covering, more than the app itself. Eg. if your market is huge, somebody will want to jump in. If it's tiny, nobody else is probably going to bother even if you made it trivial to deploy and run. And there is a huge continuum of options in between :)

One thing I've seen was default to AGPL after, say, 3 years after release. Depending on the development pace, you might make that 1 or 5 years. In general, this means you could AGPL the version from 5 years ago today.