It’s not open source though.

mdaniel · 2025-05-03T17:26:12 1746293172

Wow, that's just about the dumbest licensing clause I've ever seen in my life:

> Content of branches other than the main branch (i.e. "master") are not licensed

How the fuck do pull requests work in that setup? Or presumably tags aren't licensed?! Holy shit

Anyway, seems to be some rando made up license https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md#sustain...

simple10 · 2025-05-03T17:07:35 1746292055

True. It's dual licensed. Most of the features are available in the self hosted / local version.

tinco · 2025-05-03T18:15:24 1746296124

It's dual licensed in a way, but neither license is open source. The OSI messed up in not coming up with an answer to the SSPL, and now ambitious projects that would have traditionally gone with an open source license like AGPL are now foregoing open source entirely and just slapping a sustainable use license on it.

So yeah, you can use n8n for free, but that doesn't make it open source. It is a source available license.

moralestapia · 2025-05-03T23:36:55 1746315415

What's the catch?

You have to pay after some revenue threshold?