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Commercial license for protobuf-net #259

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Can you provide a commercial license for protobuf-net? Even if this means that 
you have to pay a fee to obtain it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by palexan...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2011 at 9:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi palexandru; in short, it depends what you are looking for in a commercial 
license. If you mean "I want to use it in a commercial product", then fine - go 
for it; I place no restriction on you. If you mean "I want dedicated sub-1-hour 
support and full liability", then simply: as an OSS author working on my own 
time I'm just not set up to provide that, and it is pretty likely that any 
/reasonable/ fee from a very small number of *paying* customers would be 
entirely swallowed by the overheads associated with a commercial offering (i.e. 
insurance, tax, accounting, etc).

What is it that you need, specifically?

Original comment by marc.gravell on 9 Dec 2011 at 1:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi,
I am thinking of a license similar with the commercial license for RavenDB: 
http://ravendb.net/licensing i.e. something that is suitable for companies that 
have a closed source policy.
Cheers,
Alex Pop

Original comment by palexan...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2011 at 2:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The existing license should be fully compatible with closed source. No demands 
are made of any user, other than maybe "don't sue me". You do not need to 
release your source, or mention your usage of protobuf-net in any way. Use as 
you will.

Original comment by marc.gravell on 9 Dec 2011 at 10:36