OPNSense for commercial use

[Visseroth]

I know PfSense's stance on using the CE edition for commercial use but what is OPNSense's stance on using your own hardware and OPNSense OS for commercial use?

[mimugmail]

Are you asking the users or the owners of OPN?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

https://github.com/opnsense/core/blob/master/LICENSE

[bimbar]

There is a business edition.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

There is a business edition.

The license explicitly permits use for arbitrary purposes. It's BSD 2-clause.

[Visseroth]

OK, so if I understand correctly, it is free to use for whatever scenario (Just like PfSense was in the beginning) and just like most open source projects BUT the project needs to be supported, so if used for commercial purposed PLEASE support the project.
Besides, at $360 or so for business every 3 years is pretty dang affordable!
I only ask because with PfSense going the direction it is (and due to the things they have done to their competitors) I'm considering migrating my clients over gradually.
I plan to bench test as soon as I am able but OPNSense needs to be as or more stable than PfSense and as quiet as this forum is I suspect that will likely be the case.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

OK, so if I understand correctly, it is free to use for whatever scenario.

You do.

Besides, at $360 or so for business every 3 years is pretty dang affordable!

I don't buy the business edition because I prefer to run community with a faster development pace. What I do is to buy their appliances for all deployments. They are very well built machines for the money, anyway.

[bimbar]

There is a business edition.

The license explicitly permits use for arbitrary purposes. It's BSD 2-clause.

The idea of the business edition is that it is more stable.

[Visseroth]

@ pmhausen OK, understood and yes, I understand and agree on the hardware, however there are times when a client doesn't have the money or needs a quick fix and if I can avoid violating an agreement I will do so.
However if I can get the builder some extra support I will also do so as they have bills to pay too.

@bimbar That is my thought too. Business and stability are a must even if they are behind a bit, but there are those few times when they may need a cutting edge kernel to get some new hardware working.

OK, thank you for the clarification guys. You'll be seeing me around more though I'm not super active, I just have to many irons in the fire and not enough time to do everything I want and/or need to do.