Re: Corporate use of Netbox

[Brian Candler]

On Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 10:11:57 UTC Thijs Kiggen wrote:

Hello All,

I was wondering about the business use of Netbox within a corporate environment. 

Can I use Netbox fully without a particular license? 

Or do I need to purchase a license for corporate use of Netbox? 

On Github I can only find an Apache license but that doesn't say anything else about using Netbox for business purposes.

You have answered your own question. Netbox is provided under the Apache 2.0 license, and it doesn't say anything about business purposes, because it allows you to use it for *any* purpose.

The OSI definition of what constitutes an "open source" license says:

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No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

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The Apache license is OSI approved, and in fact is one of the more permissive licenses out there.