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

Therefore, all my scripts / solutions as published through this blog (“My Work”) 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 in some way 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 commercially, you pay yearly or purchase a perpetual license 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 of which the source code is published publicly on or through this blog. So you only pay one fee for everything I’ve ever and will ever publish here.

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).

Support

Technical support is not included in the commercial use license. As the support requirements greatly differ per situation, this is negotiated separately.