The O'Saasy License

<div class="trix-content"> <div>One of my favorite parts of the early web was how easy it was to see how the front-end was built. Before View Source was ruined by minification, transpiling, and bundling, you really could just right-click on any web page and learn how it was all done. It was glorious.<br><br></div><div>But even back then, this only ever applied to the front-end. At least with commercial applications, the back-end was always kept proprietary. So learning how to write great web applications still meant piecing together lessons from books, tutorials, and hello-world-style code examples, not from production-grade commercial software.<br><br></div><div>The O'Saasy License seeks to remedy that. It's basically the do-whatever-you-want MIT license, but with the commercial rights to run the software as a service (SaaS) reserved for the copyright holder, thus encouraging more code to be open source while allowing the original creators to see a return on their investment.<br><br></div><div>We need more production-grade code to teach juniors and LLMs alike. A view source that extends to the back-end along with the open source invitation to fix bugs, propose features, and run the system yourself for free (if your data requirements or interests maks that a sensible choice over SaaS).<br><br></div><div>This is what we're doing with <a href="https://fizzy.do/">Fizzy</a>, but now we've also given the O'Saasy License a home to call its own at <a href="http://osaasy.dev/">osaasy.dev</a>. The license is yours to download and apply to any project where it makes sense. I hope to read a lot more production-grade SaaS code as a result!<br><br> <figure class="attachment attachment--preview attachment--lightboxable attachment--png"> <a download="osassy-license.png" title="Download osassy-license.png" data-click-proxy-target="lightboxlinkblob_2382631344" href="https://world.hey.com/dhh/336c5c8f/blobs/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjM4MjYzMTM0NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ--ca8e8c2eaa291c28171287ab2f86d9dd48d1e098ce75cce24e3eef1507fccab7/osassy-license.png?disposition=attachment"> <img src="https://world.hey.com/dhh/336c5c8f/representations/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjM4MjYzMTM0NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ--ca8e8c2eaa291c28171287ab2f86d9dd48d1e098ce75cce24e3eef1507fccab7/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6eyJmb3JtYXQiOiJwbmciLCJyZXNpemVfdG9fbGltaXQiOlszODQwLDI1NjBdLCJxdWFsaXR5Ijo2MCwibG9hZGVyIjp7InBhZ2UiOm51bGx9LCJjb2FsZXNjZSI6dHJ1ZX0sInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ--7edc7b21f6fad97fa22412618822c4d19725431f296c7ce47dc174b61535d27c/osassy-license.png" alt="osassy-license.png" decoding="async" loading="lazy"> </a> </figure></div> </div>