Comment by JimDabell

Comment by JimDabell a day ago

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The person I was replying to seemed to be under the impression that n8n used to be open source and now is not. This is not the case, so I pointed that out.

Did you have anything to say about my actual comment, or are you just attaching your rant to a random part of the thread?

victorhooi 20 hours ago

Quoting another poster (wavemode) here...

Trivially debunked by looking at their homepage in 2019:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191009000026/https://n8n.io/

  • JimDabell 20 hours ago

    That archived page doesn’t debunk what I am saying, it supports it.

    > Open Source Alternative for Zapier/tray.io

    They claimed to be open source…

    > (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause)

    …but they were not. The Commons Clause means that it isn’t open source. It’s a commercial restriction.

    The founder directly said this when discussing it here, the day before that archive was saved:

    > > This is not open source - it is source available.

    > Yes you are correct. Wrote an extra section about it here in the docs: https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=license

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21192277

  • wavemode 11 hours ago

    No, what I linked to does not show that they used to be open source. It shows that they used to call themselves open source, despite never having been so.