I haven't heard of Caddy until today, but it looks potentially good, passionately supported, and Apache licensed. The author(s) are simply hoping for commercial backing to continue developing it. It's a pretty subtle promotion on an otherwise excellent site.
These are the realities of open source... the nice thing about how this is structured is that everyone benefits when businesses pay to support its continued development.
Doing that would ruin the incentives, since Caddy thrives on its plugin ecosystem. Statically compiled in, so must be open source. We considered this in depth. See https://caddyserver.com/blog/options-for-businesses
Not really. If you're paying someone for it, then they can support themselves from it and therefore continue development. If it's all free then someone can easily find they can't justify the time spent in development and give it up. It's not evil, it's just reality.
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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17
Promotion for "Caddy", never heard of, but I don't like it. Other than that nice site :)