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Context

0009 chose the AGPLv3 so nobody could resell the hosting without giving back. The AGPL doesn’t stop that: anyone may run artbucket as a paid service, as long as they publish their changes. The intent was stronger: free for everyone to use, but not the base of someone else’s SaaS.

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Decision

Everything in this repository is under the Elastic License 2.0, except ee/, which stays reserved for a separate commercial license and empty. Anyone may use, copy, change and self-host artbucket, for free, for any purpose, including inside a company and in commercial work. What the license forbids is providing it to third parties as a hosted or managed service. The line between free and ee/ is unchanged from 0009 and 0006.

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Consequences

  • Artbucket is source-available, not open source by the OSI definition.
  • A company running it for its own people, its brands, or the partners and contractors it works with is fine; selling access to it as a service is not.
  • Changes no longer have to be published.
  • Contributions are accepted under the same license.