How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing

hyperhello

> Full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of Kelviq. So this is an ad. Fine, but that ought to have been disclosed at the beginning.

faangguyindia

You probably made that money because you sell some other product on side and bundled the library license in.

eskibars

One thing I mention to folks that seem to think AGPL "protects you" against a major corporation incorporating your product into a SaaS product: it mostly doesn't. It isn't written about often, but it's the reason many "open core" companies moved away from AGPL to protect their revenue from larger SaaS/IaaS/PaaS players from eating their lunch. Some writings are: - https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL - https://katedowninglaw.com/2019/09/08/the-great-open-source-... - https://drewdevault.com/blog/Anti-AGPL-propaganda/

Pawnef

What’s dual licensing i’m kinda interested

bryanking

This is what Tailwind should’ve done. It’s a shame to see hard work contribute countless millions of dollars to publicly traded companies and highly capitalized startups, and OSS creators not getting their due.

hmcamp

Thanks for sharing!