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We fund the project entirely from sales of the Confluence integration.

Just to extend the conversation, the change implements one thing, it protects our revenue in the atlassian ecosystem.

What it does it protect the future development of the project by protecting the revenue. That's more useful to you than the license being fully open source.

The primary losers of this change is anyone wanting to integrate draw.io into the Atlassian ecosystem.

I mean this does seem kind of fair. I'm not familiar with Confluence and Atlassian but it seems something mostly aimed at corporations, I'm not sure of how common it's use is and how much is affected by this though.

I'm okay with something being 98% open source so they can survive on the extra 2%. And I much rather specific non competes for certain platforms then broad non-commercial clauses.

10. None of the Work may be used in any form as part, or whole, of an integration, plugin or app that integrates with Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products.

its just the apache 2 license with a restriction to not sell this project on one marketplace. Can still sell the code elsewhere. Its still totally open source, and honestly Confluence is not something I would loose sleep on. Jira has been a cash cow for a long time, and I have a beef with them anyway

Honestly good on them for keeping the spirit alive for just about everyone who isn't a direct competitor of theirs.

Let them make some money to continue to fund it. They even invalidated all sponsorships because of the license change.

Unless you personally were willing to fund whatever they make on their integration, then this is an ok play in my book.

Hmmm. I wonder who is making so much money off this that the project is willing to push them into forking it . . . ?