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@dan-menlo dan-menlo commented Oct 25, 2023

Folks, I've submitted a PR to shift Nitro from MIT license to AGPL, as per our retreat discussion.

Why AGPL?

  • Jan wants to build Nitro as a long-term ecosystem, and will drive Nitro's development for next few years
  • We want strong copyleft culture, where downstream consumers improvements are fed back into the ecosystem
  • We will be investing a lot of effort into integrating TensorRT-LLM and other libraries, and want potential Jan competitors to compete with us on an even playing field
  • Longer-term, we can consider a dual-licensing scheme for Nitro, to waive AGPL with a commercial license (ala MySQL)

Who else uses AGPLv3?

  • MongoDB
  • Minio
  • Increasing numbers of the r/selfhosted stack uses AGPL, and we maintain license compatibility

cc @tikikun @vuonghoainam @0xSage

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LGTM

@tikikun tikikun merged commit 6298888 into main Oct 25, 2023
@hiro-v hiro-v deleted the update-license branch November 4, 2023 04:45
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