Research Open Source License Options

[vcavanna]

Supposing we take this project open source, will that actually work for us? Consider the following:

• Running this in any way costs money (AWS, hosting), which I don't want to pay for myself.
• There's also concerns (tied to open source and also to money) that web scraping Edmunds doesn't allow for a paid service (to be looked into)
• If we developed a open source version of this, could we ever go back to another version (potential expansion into a product people actually would buy?)

Research on this would be great. Write the answer in the Github docs.

[RyanRearden]

No answer in GitHub docs yet but I think the best solution may be to do a really light license like MIT. Technically this would mean people could take the code and spinoff their own thing but we could switch to private for the next version.

See: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/279171/can-the-author-of-an-mit-licensed-project-convert-it-to-a-commercial-licensed-on