discourse/discourse

Discourse

Civilized discussion forums.

Open sourceActiveAn afternoon

“A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.” — from the project

The license, in plain English

License: GPL 2.0 · OSI-approved
Use it at work?: Yes — run it, modify it, sell services around it.
Share your changes?: Only if you distribute the software; then your changes must be GPL too. Running it on your own servers is fine.

Our reading, not legal advice — the repository’s LICENSE file is the source of truth.

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