Great news! Congratulations for open sourcing it! Hope the best for the future.
Edit: I'm a happy user ;-)
Edit: I'm a happy user ;-)
As somebody who typically dislikes the Elastic license, this is really a great use of it:
- it used to be completely closed source, so it's not taking any previous contributions and putting a more restrictive license on it;
- there is clearly quite a bit of thought in choosing this license over something like AGPL (complete with somebody taking to themselves on GitHub), and the license was chosen based on the goals;
- the software in question is really not that useful for non-commercial uses anyway, so people who want to freeload doesn't have that much to stand on
Even though I'm not a user (and don't see myself using it in the future), I'd nevertheless be happy for them and hope they do well :)
"After 7 years of being closed source, I'm incredibly excited to announce that Keygen is now open source! Let's unpack what that means for us and for you."
Open source doesn't mean Free Software.
Outside of the announcement and 2/3 of the blog post, I use the phrase “open, source-available.”