{"id":3714,"date":"2021-09-23T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/?page_id=3714"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:57:16","slug":"commercial-use","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/commercial-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Use and Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a great believer in the power of open or &#8216;available&#8217; source and an open community where content is shared, peer reviewed and improved continuously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, all my scripts \/ solutions (&#8220;My Work&#8221;) published through this blog, on Github or elsewhere  are free to use <strong>as long as you&#8217;re not making money out of it, directly or indirectly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I define making money out of my work as Commercial use, which means using my work in or as part of a <strong>service <\/strong>or <strong>product <\/strong>or anything else that is being paid for in some way by someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Non exhaustive examples of commercial use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> a managed service provider using my scripts in their customer environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a global IT organization that handles IT, using my work, for subsidiaries, for which they are compensated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a software company that (re)uses (parts of) my work in their commercial software or internal tooling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>situations where my work is used in migrations or conversions for paid products or services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a staffing company, where their staff implements my work at customer sites where the customer pays (directly or indirectly) for their hours<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IT contractors that implement my solutions for their customers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you wish to use my work commercially, you pay yearly or purchase a perpetual license based on your Tier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tiers are defined as &#8216;users affected or targeted&#8217; and structured as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"commercial use fees\" class=\"wp-image-4668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image.png 339w, https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When upgrading tiers, the previous payment may be substracted from the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A purchase applies to all <strong>current and future work<\/strong> of which the source code is published publicly on or through this blog. So you only pay one fee for everything I&#8217;ve ever and will ever publish here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For (verified) NGO&#8217;s and educational institutions, a <strong>75% discount <\/strong>applies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send an email to <strong>josliebennu<\/strong> (which is an email address if you put the right characters between SL and NN) stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the desired Tier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your business name <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>business address<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VAT number (only if European)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>email <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll receive an invoice within 2 business days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Test and trial use<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <strong>consecutive <\/strong>period of 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exceptions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have successfully installed and authorized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.m365permissions.com\">M365Permissions<\/a> (the Azure native app), above does not apply for for the tenant in which it is installed for as long as it remains installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Participating in development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Support<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technical support is not included in the commercial use license. As the support requirements greatly differ per situation, this is negotiated separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a great believer in the power of open or &#8216;available&#8217; source and an open community where content is shared, peer reviewed and improved continuously. Therefore, all my scripts \/ solutions (&#8220;My Work&#8221;) published through this blog, on Github or elsewhere are free to use as long as you&#8217;re not making money out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/commercial-use\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commercial Use and Copyright<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3714","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3714\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieben.nu\/liebensraum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}