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Comment by sleight42 | Hacker News Reader

That is a major bummer! Although the Neo4j team didn't exactly make this information easy to find.

Neo4j is released on AGPL. Their subscriptions allow you to pay to legally (IANAL so anyone want to step in here?) circumvent the AGPL and buy support

Price list: http://neotechnology.com/price-list

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How can we improve? We certainly don't want to hide our choice of licensing. Currently it's at the top of the http://neo4j.org page, immediately after the introductory description of a what a graph database is:

"Neo4j is released under a dual free software/commercial license model (which basically means that it’s open source under the AGPLv3 but if you’re interested in using it with closed source software, then you must buy a commercial license)." (http://neo4j.org)

Also, we have an AGPLv3 logo on our web page, there's a LICENSE.txt in our release tarballs, we mention it at the end of every presentation we give, and Neo4j is tagged with AGPL on sites like Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/projects/neo4j).

Please let me know how we can make it easier to find!

-EE

Also, you need to do that first when you actually have external customers accessing your systems, so you are fine without registration for testing, development, beta test etc. At that point, you should have a pretty good idea on if it is worth taking 5 min to get a closed-source license. And the free server has no limitations except scaling out whatsoever ... pretty good deal IMHO.

/peter

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