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Context

0011 left the AGPLv3 of 0009 for the Elastic License 2.0, so that nobody could resell the hosting. That guards against a threat artbucket doesn’t have yet, and it costs now: self-hosted tools are found through open source channels (lists, searches, contributors) that leave source-available projects out. The AGPL still deters the large companies that would resell it. Elastic and Redis both added it back after their source-available licenses got them forked. The copyright also named a person, not Pwnera SAS, the company behind artbucket.

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Decision

Everything in this repository is under the GNU AGPLv3, version 3 only, except ee/, which stays reserved for a commercial license, as in 0009. Pwnera SAS holds the copyright. A pull request comes with the contributor terms in CONTRIBUTING.md: the author keeps their copyright and gives Pwnera SAS the right to license the contribution under any terms. That keeps Pwnera SAS able to license artbucket commercially, to whoever cannot take the AGPL.

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Consequences

  • Artbucket is open source again, by the OSI definition.
  • Anyone may run it as a paid service, as long as they give their users the source of their changes: the cost 0011 avoided, accepted.
  • A company whose policy rules out the AGPL can buy a commercial license from Pwnera SAS.
  • Releases published under the Elastic License 2.0 keep it.
  • ee/ and the line drawn in 0006 are unchanged.