<div dir="ltr">Thanks for your feedback!<div><br></div><div>> If something in the code requires a license key or payment in order to function,<br>> then the code is not open source, it is proprietary.<br></div><div><br></div><div>With the AAL license we add a "Powered by.." message in the footer, all of the app's functionality is enabled. We offer a license key which is used to remove our branding rather than enable any features. </div><div><br></div><div>If the AAL license is deprecated it will force us to sell features which as mentioned previously I believe is worse for everyone. The only benefit is we'll likely make more money from our self host community (vs our hosted community) which is not our goal. </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:37 AM Syed Arsalan Hussain Shah <<a href="mailto:arsalan@buddyexpress.net" target="_blank">arsalan@buddyexpress.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would also like to have AAL 2.0 license. <div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:40 PM Hillel Coren <<a href="mailto:hillelcoren@gmail.com" target="_blank">hillelcoren@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">An AAL 2.0 license sounds great, thank you for the clarification!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:25 PM Josh Berkus <<a href="mailto:josh@berkus.org" target="_blank">josh@berkus.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 3/29/20 7:01 AM, Hillel Coren wrote:<br>
> It's easy to assume that by deprecating attribution based licenses<br>
> developers will either choose a different OSI approved license or change<br>
> their software from being labeled 'OSS' to 'Source-available software'.<br>
> I'd argue in practice many developers (ourselves included) would instead<br>
> choose to share less code.<br>
<br>
Please read the whole of the AAL discussion so that you can understand<br>
the difference between "attribution" and "badgeware".<br>
<br>
One option for the AAL would be to create the AAL 2.0, which would fix<br>
the badgeware clause, replacing it with a proper attribution clause.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Josh Berkus<br>
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