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.NET OSS Projects When 'Free' Stops Working: Better to Re-license or Die?
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.NET OSS Projects: Better to Re-license or Die?Published on January 18, 2025 in .NET / Open Source This week FluentAssertions, a popular open source library designed to make it easier to write assertions during unit testing, changed its license from Apache 2.0 to some commercial terms under the name of a new business entity, Xceed. The net impact of this is that FluentAssertions now costs $129.95 per seat for commercial use for version 8.0 and later. Naturally the .NET community was in uproar over this on /r/dotnet and in a few other places, like this comment from the “.NET Eventing Framework” thread which inspired “.NET Developers Begging for Ecosystem Destruction”
In this post we’re going to unpack two things:
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Aaronontheweb
I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.
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