Kanban software Fizzy is now free for all users, with new CLI and native iOS/Android apps
37signals, the company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE, has announced that its kanban software Fizzy is now free for all users. Both the installable open source version and the cloud-hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering can be used at no charge. According to CEO Jason Fried, ongoing support will be funded by revenue from Basecamp and HEY.
While the code for Fizzy is available on GitHub, it is released under the O'Saasy license. This license is similar to MIT in terms of code access, but it restricts commercial SaaS use to 37signals and is not recognized as an open source license by the Open Source Initiative.
Following this move, anyone can sign up for Fizzy directly through the website and begin using it without payment. Previous paying subscribers will not be billed moving forward. Expanding platform support, an official command-line interface is planned, and a native iOS app is expected once it's approved by Apple. In addition, an Android application is already available for download from the Google Play Store.
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The Open Source Initiative isn't the source of truth regarding licensing. It does contradict pionners like the FSF that is an older foundation for example.
Source Wikipédia: Free and open-source software (FOSS) or free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS) is openly shared source code that is licensed without any restrictions on usage, modification, or distribution. Conversely, Richard Stallman argues the "obvious meaning" of term "open source" is that the source code is public/accessible for inspection, without necessarily any other rights granted, although the proponents of the term say the conditions in the Open Source Definition must be fulfilled.