Planka Project Adopts Non-Free License

Project Planka , offering the service launched on its own equipment kanban-dosks to organize command work and tracking tasks, moved to a non -free license. Initially, the project used the Expat/MIT license, in 2023 transferred to the license to the license AGPLv3, а теперь задействовал несвободную лицензию “Fair Use License“, based on “ superinable use license “. Change of license considers a discussion about a change in the license closed. The developers assure that “for most users of the Community version of the product, nothing will change”, silent that the new license is not approved by the organization of OSI and the SPO funds since it does not meet the definition of Open Source and the criteria for free software.

The Fair Use License license allows the use and modification of the source code only for personal use, in the process of training or to ensure the operation of internal processes in the company.
The use of the code base to create paid products or services offered to third parties (for example, providing access to other legal entities to the detailed Planka copy) is prohibited without buying a separate commercial license.

In the meantime, for more than two years (since the transition of the PLANKA project to the AGLPV3 license) is actively developed fork 4gaboarts , which continues to use the Expat/MIT license. A number of new functions that are absent in Planka are implemented in the fork, among which: the expanded capabilities of the customization of the interface (folding the speakers, display in the form of a list); means for integration with external services (including authorization and synchronization methods); The side panel for navigation between projects and boards; Boards templates.


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