JsonPatch.Net going commercial and affect on commercial products using aspire - no affect 😀

[Meir017]

aspire/src/Aspire.Hosting/Aspire.Hosting.csproj

Line 55 in 3f15281

<PackageReference Include="JsonPatch.Net" />

is aspire affected by thr license change of https://github.com/json-everything/json-everything/blob/8c3a9df97b3906aa2bf364347affd4fc483f090c/README.md ?

See https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1ql41jb/jsoneverything_to_start_charging_a_maintainance/

My concern here is that aspire itself is completely open-source, but users of aspire will be getting the JsonPatch.Net dependency, and many users of aspire are building internal apps for profit

[DamianEdwards]

@Meir017 my understanding is that in the case of the OSMF EULA it only applies to the projects explicitly taking the dependency (so in this case it would potentially apply to Aspire itself) and not down-level consumers. Here is that point being made by @robmen (the creator of the license) himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1ql41jb/comment/o1ir7h5/

[robmen]

@damienedwards is correct. You only pay fees to dependencies you chose to use.

The goal is for Aspire to support its choice of dependencies. The goal is NOT to make other people support Aspire's choice of dependencies. 😄

Happy to provide additional clarification if I've done poorly above. :)

[joperezr]

Thanks for confirming this, @robmen. Is the intent to make this point clearer in the License? I see you also talked about this in the FAQ section, but I don't see this spelled out in the License itself, unless I'm missing something.

[robmen]

My understanding (note: I am not a lawyer) is that the OSMF EULA already says that the maintenance fee is paid by the user of the project. The FAQ is how non-lawyers would say it. :)

[DamianEdwards]

I think the confusion is that the EULA doesn't define "user" as clearly as the FAQ does.

[robmen]

Also, I wouldn't say that JsonPatch.Net is "going commercial".

Unlike many other solutions, under the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF), the license of the JsonPatch.Net project remains the same: MIT. It's still a fully Open Source project; source code access, modification, and redistribution rights are unchanged. The OSMF EULA applies only a small fee for using the binary releases to support its sustainability.

The term "going commercial" implies a loss of freedom that has not occurred.