OPNsense Forum
English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: seed on January 29, 2020, 12:25:05 pm
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Hello OPNsense developers
i am one of the "power" users and enthusiats of your project. At home and in our Maker/Hackerspace I use OPNsense.
I have a question regarding the opensource licencing in the future.
Does OPNsense stay opensource? Im asking this silly question due to the fact, that there is an upcomming "Business Edition".
Regards
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Yes, it will stay forevery so. There is only a Business Edition because there are businesses which demand a supported solution :)
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We forked specifically to retain the BSD licensing which should speak for our desire to keep it, and everybody can fork if that promise is broken for whatever reason. Karma and such... 8)
The business edition actually uses the same stable branch that is publicly available and shipped for everyone else. There were some early plans to build a separate branch with a more conservative approach to patches but in the spirit of open source also publish this branch in source code only. This idea was made so conservative that the business edition merely lacks behind the official releases a few days or weeks and the need for more release engineering was obsoleted.
Why business edition then? You will find the business edition to be an opportunity for smaller donors to fund the project which cannot be partners or cannot allocate the resources necessary to be a listed partner. It also gives access to VM images, discount on support packages, e-book access, etc.
Cheers,
Franco
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;D
Great News. I was worried for a second. I work my way into network security and since OPNsense is opensource it became a good guidance.