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Comment by zamadatix | Hacker News Reader

As a heads up your project is MIT licensed - that means companies do not need to reach out to purchase a license for commercial use. It might make sense to change that to an offer for official support (or relicense the project to meet your desires if applicable).

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SQLite is public domain, but they apparently get enough enquiries about purchasing licenses, that they offer a warranty of title.

https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license

Yes but that is specifically (they actually mention this) because some companies don’t recognize public domain license, so those companies rather buy a few thousand dollar license than going through the internal bureaucracy to get it approved - if even possible.

Was going to make a similar comment.

> Note: Companies interested in purchasing a license to use the source code commercially can contact this number

and then

> This project is licensed under the MIT License.

I guess they didn't understand the MIT license and what rights it confers.

I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code.

Best regards

It says right in the readme:

    This project is licensed under the MIT License.

    I hope everyone benefits from this open-source project for the development of IPv6.

The readme of repository includes a paragraph suggesting that companies should reach out for a commercial license. For an MIT licensed codebase that is unusual. I believe the top-level commenter is assuming that discrepancy is by mistake and is giving a heads up.

From the readme:

>Note: Companies interested in purchasing a license to use the source code commercially can contact this number on WhatsApp

You are right, I forgot to delete the mit license. I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code.

Best regards

Not a lawyer, but can you retroactively apply your new license to the previous commits?

Pretty sure though any commercial entity that downloaded the code whilst it was MIT licensed (or if they just clone from the commit before you changed the license) that they can use the code with that license. Again, not a lawyer, I may be full of shit!

The previous source code was incomplete; they must download the latest version of the source code with the latest license for it to work correctly.

When using the previous MIT license, the original license and copyright must be included. The original license may change in this case, and the new license must follow the original one.

You are right, I forgot to delete the mit license.

I have now removed the mit license and modified the license to accommodate commercial use of the source code.

Best regards

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