I am a great believer in the power of open source and an open community where content is shared, peer reviewed and improved continuously.

Therefore, all my scripts / solutions as published through this blog are free to use as long as you’re not making money out of it, directly or indirectly.

I define making money out of my work as Commercial use, which means using my work in or as part of a service or product or anything else that is being paid for by someone.

Non exhaustive examples of commercial use:

• a managed service provider using my scripts in their customer environments
• a global IT organization that handles IT, using my work, for subsidiaries, for which they are compensated
• a software company that (re)uses (parts of) my work in their commercial software or internal tooling
• situations where my work is used in migrations or conversions for paid products or services
• a staffing company, where their staff implements my work at customer sites where the customer pays (directly or indirectly) for their hours
• IT contractors that implement my solutions for their customers

Here my work helps create monetary value and it is fair to ask for a (small) piece of the pie to support future work, improvements, advice, support, etc etc.

If you wish to use my work in a commercial context, you pay yearly or purchase an unlimited license (perpetual, does not expire) based on your Tier.

Tiers are defined as ‘users affected or targeted’ and structured as follows:

When upgrading tiers, the previous payment may be substracted from the price.

A purchase applies to all current and future work published publicly on this blog. So you only pay one fee for everything I’ve ever published.

For (verified) NGO’s and educational institutions, a 75% discount applies.

Send an email to josliebennu (which is an email address if you put the right characters between SL and NN) stating:

• the desired Tier
• your business name
• business address
• VAT number (only if European)
• email

You’ll receive an invoice within 2 business days.

Test and trial use

If you wish to try any of my scripts or tools first, you can do so before purchasing a license without notice or approval for a maximum consecutive period of 7 days.

Participating in development

Anyone is free to submit a Pull Request to improve my solutions (using Github). As a token of appreciation for this, an individual or organization who has contributed sufficiently may see above commercial restrictions lifted for them for all my work (to be judged on a case by case basis by me).