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Hi @mohaa7
I would like to clarify that we never licensed FingerprintJS under a GPL-like license. It was always licensed under MIT. |
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Hello @mohaa7, Cheers! |
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Yes, but my choice is definitely not a software with an exclusive license. I have to take the opinion of my team and check how to proceed. Thanks for your reply.
MIT is a non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.
I see and respect your decision. I'm not going to flame, but meaningful to mention, you are no longer Open Source by definition as "Open Source doesn’t just mean access to the source code" and your blog post points this out in a subtle way by the sentence "keeping the source code available". |
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hey @Valve , @mohaa7 Really it is the best lib in market, but am going tolive a opensource app, where i need it to give free credits to guest user, can i use it free in my opensource project ? |
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Hi @princetechs! The project's open-source nature does not matter as far as I understand. You can use Fingerprint for non-production, non-commercial, exploratory purposes but running it in production (as part of a revenue-generating project) requires a commercial license. Feel free to contact our sales team to discuss if your project requires a commercial license. |
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I agree with the OP, fingerprintjs v4 does NOT qualify as open source anymore and shouldn't be presented as such on the README. To expand on the OP's link, section 6 of the Open Source Definition clearly states: 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a
specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from
being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.By introducing the commercial use licensing requirement, this violates the requirement to qualify for calling the project open source. In this case this repo should have stopped at v3 and forked into a new commercial license repo for v4 that doesn't pretend to be open source. Broprint, available at https://github.com/Rajesh-Royal/Broprint.js, seems to provide similar functionality under MIT license without the commercial restrictions, as an actual Open Source project. |
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Hi @autronix,
We agree. FingerprintJS v4 does not claim to be open-source, the README clearly states it's published under BSL and outlines which use cases require a license and which do not. The only mention of "open-source" in the README is in reference to the open-source community. I have created a PR to remove that adjective to avoid any potential confusion: #1006 Thank you! |
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We would appreciate it if you could share your reasons for abandoning a GPL-like license.
We are a start-up (MVP stage) that FingerprintJS is the core of our work! What should we do now?
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