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What is the licensing model? Completely open source, free for small time use with license fees for heavier use, charge for all commercial use, undecided yet?

I ask out of interest rather than because I am thinking of licensing it. I can see it will be highly useful though to those that need it.

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Free for public instances of SpreadServe that phone home spreadsheet details to spreadserve.com's live page [1]. Chargeable for offline instances that don't phone home as they have a paid license key. Some of the codebase is OSS [2]. More details on the license model here [3].

[1] http://spreadserve.com/cws/cdashboard.html

[2] https://github.com/SpreadServe/SSAddin

[3] http://spreadserve.readthedocs.io/en/latest/license.html

Thanks. Making the add-in open source makes sense from a business perspective, lets people inspect the code they are running on their machine.

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