open source licensing strategy
A complete SDK sold as closed source
Original excerpt
And that's what they sell and they sell it as closed source.
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Adam Stacoviak discusses a closed-source SDK, source availability, and distributing non-paid license keys. Read 3 viewpoints with supporting evidence and source links.
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A complete SDK sold as closed source
Stacoviak says the complete SDK under discussion is sold as closed source.
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Original excerpt
And that's what they sell and they sell it as closed source.
Adam Stacoviak · 1:42:30
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open source licensing strategy →Source availability and commercial sustainability
Stacoviak says he is not against open source and discusses the desire for a sustainable commercial company with source available.
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i'm not anti-open source, but because of the threat and the desire to have a sustainable commercial company and have source available because of the reasons why source available.
Adam Stacoviak · 1:42:52
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open source sustainability →Liberal non-paid license key distribution
Stacoviak describes giving every user a license key and distributing non-paid keys liberally. For a home-lab key, he says “maybe even instant.”
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so what a license key lets you do, in this case, is literally everyone who is a user gets a license key, and you're very liberal with how you distribute those license keys that are non-paid.
Adam Stacoviak · 1:43:06
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open source sustainability
Source availability and commercial sustainability
Original excerpt
i'm not anti-open source, but because of the threat and the desire to have a sustainable commercial company and have source available because of the reasons why source available.
license key distribution strategy
Liberal non-paid license key distribution
Original excerpt
so what a license key lets you do, in this case, is literally everyone who is a user gets a license key, and you're very liberal with how you distribute those license keys that are non-paid.
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Adam Stacoviak: Viewpoints
Adam Stacoviak on license key distribution strategy, open source licensing strategy, open source sustainability. Explore 3 viewpoints by topic, with evidence from 1 source.