[JimDabell]

> Substantial - This feels like skinning n8n to make a product is meant to prevent. If there's an existing business solving their issues and either it's not substantially n8n, and the n8n part isn't a product, service, or module being sold, it could be OK.

It’s not. We wanted to incorporate n8n into our product. It would represent a small, non-essential part of our product. We weren't just skinning and reselling n8n as a product itself. But our users would be directly using an n8n instance hosted by us in a commercial context. I reached out to n8n and was told directly by them that the free license does not allow this and it required a $50k commercial license.

You seem to keep steering the discussion towards “they don’t really mean that”. Yes, they do. These are not unintentional restrictions. They wanted to make these restrictions so they could charge for commercial licenses, so that’s what they did. There is nothing hidden between the lines. There is nothing to figure out. Those are the restrictions.