How come they are charging for Community Server now? | The Coffeehouse

zhuo

Wasn't community server meant to be free and was released with some sort of public license or something? What's happening to it? Commercialisation of a product previously licensed to the public? Is that allowed?

Jack Poison
At what price, Freedom?

I think the base is still free, along with the source code. You just don't get support or any of the extras..

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Jack Poison wrote:
I think the base is still free, along with the source code. You just don't get support or any of the extras..

I just checked the website, they seemed to have removed the free "Express" edition.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

I just looked, the Express Edition is still there.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

zhuo wrote:
Commercialisation of a product previously licensed to the public? Is that allowed?

Of course it's allowed, why wouldn't it be?

amd_duron

Read up:
http://communityserver.org/content/Licensing.aspx

Still free, with same limits as since 2.0 was available.

As for can they sale something that was free, well it was NOT GPL, it was just free. So yes, they can sell it they own the code they can do with it as they wish.

figuerres
???

zhuo wrote:
Wasn't community server meant to be free and was released with some sort of public license or something? What's happening to it? Commercialisation of a product previously licensed to the public? Is that allowed?

they wrote it. they own the IP rights to the code they wrote.

they did not "give it away" they made it availible to download and use.

so they can do as they wish.

m1keread
Bored of Captions

So if you can download the source code to the latest version, does this mean that you are effectively getting the same version as their "Enterprise" edition.

For instance, in their conversion table, Small business can enable upto 25 forums, Professional 100 forums and Enterprise unlimited.

So if I download the source, am I right to assume that I can find the setting in web.config or whereever and change it to unlimited if I so wish ?

regards

Mike