Caddy license for commercial use

[uzer123]

I would like to use caddy server for a commercial project. Reading about it’s licensing has really confused me.
It’s suppose to be free for commercial use only if i do the compiling myself? And i have to pay if i want to use these versions commercially?
Then, i saw that this doesnt exist anymore, and everything is under apache 2, so i can use compiled versions in commercial projects too for free.
Can this be clarified?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Where did you hear that about commercial licenses?

You can find everything you need to know about licensing on our website and/or the GitHub project page (the LICENSE file).

[uzer123]

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/6zyhb0/caddy_business_use_now_requires_a_commercial/
But the official caddyserver link doesnt work, so i guess it’s something from the past that doesnt apply now.

In any case as i’m new (and afraid, of messing with licenses), according to Github LICENSE file here I can use caddy for free in commercial projects, even using packages found here. Do i understand correctly?

[xerus (janek)]

yes, the github summary also mentions that commercial use is allowed
and I don’t know why there would be a difference to pre-built binaries, if everything is in order these should be identical to self-compiled ones

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Thanks for the link. You’re reading Internet comments that are 5 years old. (How did you find that in the first place? Just curious)

Caddy is Apache-licensed, that’s it.

@uzer123

I can use caddy for free in commercial projects, even using packages found here. Do i understand correctly?

Yes. (And to clarify, Caddy’s source code has always been Apache-licensed. We also never put any features behind a paid version.)

[uzer123]

@xerus

yes, the github summary also mentions that commercial use is allowed
and I don’t know why there would be a difference to pre-built binaries, if everything is in order these should be identical to self-compiled ones

i don’t know either. It looked strange to me also.

@matt

Thanks for the link. You’re reading Internet comments that are 5 years old. (How did you find that in the first place? Just curious)

Caddy is Apache-licensed, that’s it.

@uzer123

I can use caddy for free in commercial projects, even using packages found here. Do i understand correctly?

Yes. (And to clarify, Caddy’s source code has always been Apache-licensed. We also never put any features behind a paid version.)

i dont remember exactly but now, if i google is caddy server free for commercial use? it’s the 4th-5th result.
I had seen these are old comments, but i had the stress of not understanding some details on the license and believe the wrong stuff.

Also, thanks for giving a simple Yes answer and for created a such nice tools, and most importantly with so nice documentation.

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Wow, lookit that. Those aren’t very helpful search results, how frustrating.

Thanks for asking here then. Hopefully more people will not worry about that.

[uzer123]

I think people like me (i.e. noobies in this license thing) would like to see a clear answer.
Btw can’t you just comment underneath this reddit post to clarify that things are different now?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

I don’t have a reddit account. But please feel free to do so!