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by me_bx 4197 days ago
Funny that the library is not open source, but still they do host it on a public github repo. Doesn't make much sense to me, and there should be some clarifications on what is authorized and what is not.

Github is "Free for open source projects", I have always wondered what definition they would use for "open source". Looked for it a few years ago, and didn't find it. Any clue on what's acceptable policy for them? Maybe they consider that public repo = open source, because code is accessible?
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teunduynstee 4197 days ago
Hi, I am the author of the library on Github.

First of all, Github is not free for Open Source, it is free for public projects (https://github.com/pricing). Not just for OSS, if the repo is public, it is free.

Is Git Flow Chart Open Source? No, it is not. Choosing an OSS license would make it hard to make money on the plugin. On Atlassians marketplace, this means that if your project is OSS, you get it for free, but if you are a paying user of Stash, you also pay for the plugin. We want to follow the same lines with Github: public repos are free, so you can use the chart on them for free. If you pay for a private repo at GitHub, for now, you cannot use the chart. We may make it available, but at a cost. However, we do want to share the code and allow you to inspect, study and contribute improvements. The core code of Git Flow Chart is hosted on GitHub. It is a javascript library and comes with unit tests and a standalone HTML page that allows you to test improvements locally. Feel free to fork.

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me_bx 4196 days ago
Thanks,

I'm glad to learn gitHub rephrased their offer from "free for open source" to "free for public projects", it's more straightforward.

You might want to create a LICENSE.md, or to make the following sentence stand out in your README, right now it's buried in the middle of a paragraph: "I will keep use of the plug-in free for non-commercial and personal use."

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PeterWhittaker 4197 days ago
And just to finish that thought, GitHub also offers free organization plans, but only for open source projects, that is, projects with approved open source licenses. Details on GitHub.
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teunduynstee 4197 days ago
Oh, and seriously, if you have an interesting plan with this library and it isn't "I will compete with you, offering a cheaper version by embedding your library", I will most probably be super enthousiastic and will license it to you for free. Just ping me through Github.
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