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Why we picked AGPL
ritten by Philippe Noel on August 3, 2024 ParadeDB has been licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 — also known as AGPL — from day one. We reached this decision after evaluating four licenses and interviewing dozens of other open source companies.
The advice we’re about to share is most applicable to companies like us: startups aiming to build a sustainable business on top of open source. We did not feel comfortable calling ourselves open source under an unapproved license but wanted to acknowledge our ambition to build a sustainable open-source business. We observed how Elasticsearch began with an Apache 2.0 license and relicensed years later, which led AWS to create the OpenSearch fork.
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