"Enso will always be open and free to use"

[Erudition]

https://github.com/enso-org/enso/blob/60a73e9e0cfb8206d6174aec61eaafa461ec3e33/README.md?plain=1#L236C1-L237C17

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Enso is a community-driven open source project which is and will always be open

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and free to use. We are committed to a fully transparent development process and

I've been following Enso for years, since before it was called Enso, and I came back to it recently only to discover that the above promise, which is still live in the repo today in multiple places, seems to have been broken?

There is now a proprietary EULA, a paywall, a limited free trial? I searched everywhere about this and couldn't find an announcement... what happened?

[JaroslavTulach]

• possibly related previous discussion - is a login necessary? #12271

[Erudition]

Thanks, but that discussion doesn't help, in fact the sole respondent said there's a "licensing" limitation of 45 days of use, while in the same message saying it's open source, despite the fact that such limitations cannot exist in a free/libre/open source license by definition. The respondent also oversimplifies the meaning of Open Source in a way that dodges the contradiction.

I have hope because the code repository contains an open source license. Then again, the website displays a proprietary one. I guess Enso has moved to some sort of unstated "open core" model.

[JaroslavTulach]

code repository contains an open source license

• Yes, I believe that's correct. To my understanding the code in the repository is covered by open source license(s).
• Follow CONTRIBUTING document to contribute code
• In particular - to get your PR accepted - sign CLA

website displays a proprietary one

• My understanding is that the CLA gives Enso company right to release contributed code under any license of choice
• which explains why the download for end users comes with the "licensing" limitation of 45 days of use
• nobody is however prevented from getting the source from the code repository and building it in an "open source manner"