Companies adopt different strategies when building Open Core products. Some aim to keep the Open Source portion minimal, reserving the most valuable features for their paid versions. At Keep, we chose the opposite path—moving nearly everything into Open Source. Our philosophy is that most users should be able to fully benefit from the Open Source version.
While I understand (and share) the caution around licenses, I don’t think this concern applies to Keep. With 99% of our codebase under the MIT license, it’s a far cry from just having "parts of the code with an open source license."
I recommend running Keep locally and comparing the Open Source version to the playground where full version is running. You might find it challenging to spot the differences.
I also reccomend comparing Keep Open Source to BigPanda and Moogsoft. It may be surprising how much of it Keep OSS, real MIT-licensed Keep has.
While I understand (and share) the caution around licenses, I don’t think this concern applies to Keep. With 99% of our codebase under the MIT license, it’s a far cry from just having "parts of the code with an open source license."
I recommend running Keep locally and comparing the Open Source version to the playground where full version is running. You might find it challenging to spot the differences.
I also reccomend comparing Keep Open Source to BigPanda and Moogsoft. It may be surprising how much of it Keep OSS, real MIT-licensed Keep has.