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We're hoping that building a commercial service makes it clear that we have a sustainable business model and that our tools (like uv) will remain free and permissively licensed.

(I work at Astral)

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I think having a credible, proven business model is a feature of an open source project - without one there are unanswered questions about ongoing maintenance.

I'm glad to see Astral taking steps towards that.

I've been wondering where the commercial service would come in and this sounds like just the right product that aligns with what you're already doing and serves a real need. Setting up scalable private registries for python is awful.

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