Talk

XWiki’s Paying Apps Strategy

Monday, 19 May 2025 @ 14:45 - 14:50

XWiki has an app store where users can pay for and download extensions. These apps are all licensed under a LGPL license; if someone was really motivated to get them for free, they could remove the payment logic and use it. It also means a competitor could theoretically use the code to create a competitive offering, but doing so would involve a certain amount of work (and it hasn’t happened yet). In this talk, Ludovic is going to discuss how this approach works, and how it is different from an open core strategy.