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Very interesting! I’ll certainly try it out. I am wondering though what’s the advantage over doing it with a K8s operator (disclaimer, I created and maintain https://github.com/openclaw-rocks/k8s-operator)?

Also, I am genuinely curious about the choice of license.

Given the „new (agentic) way“ in that software is being developed now, don’t you think it can be copied easily and that this kind of license will hinder adoption at some point?

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Thanks! The main advantage is simplicity. klaw is a single binary with zero dependencies, no k8s cluster required. For teams already running Kubernetes your operator makes a lot of sense, but most teams we've talked to managing AI agents don't have or want a k8s setup just for that. klaw gives them the same mental model without the infrastructure overhead.

On the license, fair question. The SaaS restriction is narrow, it only prevents someone from reselling klaw as a hosted orchestration service. Internal use, building on it, extending it is all fine. We looked at what Elastic and HashiCorp did and felt this was the right balance for now. Could it slow adoption? Maybe. But we'd rather start here and open up further based on how the community evolves.

Fair enough!

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