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Sustainable Licensing at Element with AGPL


We’ve chosen to switch our development to AGPL now that the wide scale public sector use of Matrix has attracted the attention of huge system integrators and similar.

AGPL also, of course, protects those that simply want to use Element’s FOSS Matrix implementations; they are free (in all meanings of the word) to use and develop on top, providing it is not customised in a proprietary manner. Element Web/Desktop will also be available under GPLv3 (to avoid causing problems for end-users who cannot install AGPL software on their corporate workstations; the unusual AGPLv3+GPLv3 dual licence here is to fulfil some prior customer commitments). The only folks impacted are those building a proprietary fork - in which case, please contact to arrange an alternative licence which suits your needs and simultaneously supports the underlying development work that your project depends on.

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