How to pay your rent with your open source project

• aseprite

  330 26,995 9.6 C++

  Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

  

Thanks for the clarification.

So, It's best to use permissible license for the open-source version of the application in case of dual-license if we want to take back the contributions to our non open-source version.

I see this what dual-licensed projects seem to do, I use open-source version of Aseprite[1] under MIT but I paid for the license on their website under EULA.

If anyone has seen a dual-licensed project where the open-source version is under AGPL or similar restrictive license then please mention.

[1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/

• triton

  7 1,301 3.9 Shell

  Triton DataCenter: a cloud management platform with first class support for containers. (by TritonDataCenter)

  

Triton DataCenter[1] is open source[2], and has commercial revenue in excess of $1M ARR. We were fortunate to acquire this product from Joyent earlier this year[3], and are now well on our way to the next revenue target.

Triton was built on the backs of giants -- so a slightly different scenario than most.. But it is clear that customers will pay for open source products, and you can more than pay your rent one day!

[1]: https://www.tritondatacenter.com

[2]: https://github.com/tritondatacenter

[3]: https://www.mnxsolutions.com/triton-faq

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• awesome-oss-monetization

  13 711 2.2

  🏆 A curated list of monetization approaches for open-source software. Feedback welcome!

  

For a curated list of monetization approaches have a look at https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization

• choosealicense.com

  3 3,575 7.2 Ruby

  A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

  

> License the source explicitly for non commercial use only

Sadly, GitHub support for this doesn't really exist:

https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015

• You-Dont-Know-JS

  303 177,110 4.8

  A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.

thanks, I found this one too:

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/2nd-ed/LICEN...

• Sequence

  2 3,372 0.0 JavaScript

  The responsive CSS animation framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications.

Interesting find, I took a cursory look at their GitHub[1] and they seem to accept PR from outside but I didn't find any explicit mention of copyright transfer; Perhaps because there's no separate version of sequence.js for commercial use(Just use case differentiation).

[1] https://github.com/IanLunn/Sequence

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