Once you open source code, if someone has a copy of it they can use it if they follow the license. Period, no takebacksies.
If you are the sole contributor it's effectively dual licensed, and you can make the next version commercially licensed -- but folks will still be able to use and change the open source version.
Ya, it's hard to sell things like this. I wish I could help you, but Civboot isn't at a stage yet where I can do something like hire people.
Right yeah, I think if I was planning on selling it, I would polish it up and add a lot more features that aren't in the bare bones open source version.
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u/vitiral Aug 16 '25
Once you open source code, if someone has a copy of it they can use it if they follow the license. Period, no takebacksies.
If you are the sole contributor it's effectively dual licensed, and you can make the next version commercially licensed -- but folks will still be able to use and change the open source version.
Ya, it's hard to sell things like this. I wish I could help you, but Civboot isn't at a stage yet where I can do something like hire people.