That still doesn't explain what the licence is for.
It says "After completing the checkout, you will receive an email containing your product key and installation instructions."
So, its still an installed version. I love how everyone is champing at the bit "oh its on GitHub look you're just stupid its open source" when you have no fucking idea what the licence is for either.
It's dual licensed, commercial Open Source. Not the first. I just love to see how every time a woman tries to do something in IT, trolls and gamegaters come out of the swamps to discredit the work. They act like it is the first time someone has done commercial Open Source and is somehow hard to understand and in violation of some imaginary ethical or legal canon.
I don't understand all the fuzz about the "open" part, the licensing, or the price. It's a commercial fork or the Apache licensed Mayan EDMS done with the approval of the Mayan folks.
Found another post from the creator's of Mayan regarding commercial forks.
"Commercial involvement with Mayan is not a problem at all, it is encouraged and the license was changed a while back from GPL to Apache 2.0 to be more commercial friendly."
"Forking and doing specialized versions is not bad and I encourage it, it is the way FLOSS projects grow. If a feature can then be added upstream, we do so, if not, it is made into a 3rd party app or sub project (http://www.mayan-edms.com/ecosystem/)."
"In this case Ranjith offers a customized version with features that we have not been able to included because they are very specific to him and his clients."
"On the other hand was Ranjith is doing is perfectly OK since there is no copyright violation and the terms of the license are being followed. The work he is putting into his fork of Mayan is helping the software get into other markets where the upstream version might not have been a choice. We've been talking and we are looking into backporting some of the more general work he's done in his fork."
The license is clear and can be read without buying the product. It is right before the shopping cart. Cookie cutter template regarding warranties, liability, indemnification, limitations, etc. Pretty standard when you buy a license for any software.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 311 ms ] threadIt says "After completing the checkout, you will receive an email containing your product key and installation instructions."
So, its still an installed version. I love how everyone is champing at the bit "oh its on GitHub look you're just stupid its open source" when you have no fucking idea what the licence is for either.
Nobody has said that. You asked a questions, got answers. Don't make it personal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should tell more about it in README.md, IMHO.
https://forum.mayan-edms.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing
Apparently not the first paid fork of Mayan EDMS
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mayan-edms/paid|s...
"Commercial involvement with Mayan is not a problem at all, it is encouraged and the license was changed a while back from GPL to Apache 2.0 to be more commercial friendly."
"Forking and doing specialized versions is not bad and I encourage it, it is the way FLOSS projects grow. If a feature can then be added upstream, we do so, if not, it is made into a 3rd party app or sub project (http://www.mayan-edms.com/ecosystem/)."
"In this case Ranjith offers a customized version with features that we have not been able to included because they are very specific to him and his clients."
"On the other hand was Ranjith is doing is perfectly OK since there is no copyright violation and the terms of the license are being followed. The work he is putting into his fork of Mayan is helping the software get into other markets where the upstream version might not have been a choice. We've been talking and we are looking into backporting some of the more general work he's done in his fork."
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mayan-edms/D4GdfFG6khM/OhAf9...
https://www.openpaperless.com/shop-1
Mayan EDMS is the project upon which Open Paperless is built on. We are now an official Mayan EDMS product!
For more details regarding the acquisition head over to the official announcement https://forum.mayan-edms.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=69