How to pay your rent with your open source project

• aseprite

  61 24,656 8.9 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

  1 1,272 0.0 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

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  Collect and Analyze Billions of Data Points in Real Time. Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Run at any scale in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.

  

• awesome-oss-monetization

  5 649 0.0

  🏆 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

  0 3,430 0.0 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

  51 173,397 0.0

  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

  0 3,376 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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