Commercial license
The following commercial license options are available for Xymon:
Site license for less than 50 hosts: € 100/year (USD 125/year)
Site license for less than 1000 hosts: € 500/year (USD 625/year
Site license for 1000 hosts or more: € 1000/year (USD 1250/year)
"Hosts" are counted as number of host entries in the hosts.cfg file - this number is reported by Xymon in the "xymongen" status.
The Xymon commercial license is sold by Xymon Software, which is a company registered in Denmark as CVR reg. number 26288681.
Please contact user-b48b6a772c94@xymon.invalid to acquire a commercial license.
Support
Buying a commercial license for Xymon gives You e-mail access directly to the Xymon developer team for reporting bugs. However, due to the development being a >volunteer effort, there is no guaranteed response-time, although we will make a best effort to respond to questions within 2 business days.
Reading from above from license clauses, I believe this is a very good
license change.
Hopefully in the long run xymon can have a team of people doing the
support and enhancement.
Cheers
tj
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've been contacted off-list by a long-time Xymon user, who had some
thoughts about how companies can help the Xymon project along by donating
some money to the project. We discussed this a bit, and he suggested that I
float my ideas on the mailing list for input - and gave me permission to
quote from his e-mails.
He wrote:
"I realise (along with others) that you put a huge effort into xymon and
given that our company uses the application extensively I would like to push
to get the company to donate something on a regular basis. It may not be big
but that’s something we can work on over time.
"I've been involved in another open source project for a while now and what
they did was to create an association based in Germany to which payments can
be given to a dedicated bank account. This model works for our company from
a donation point of view but I was just wondering if you had any plans to do
something similar?"
After thinking about this for a while, I think I can see some issues that
companies might have with donating to the project via PayPal, which is
currently the only option. There was another user recently who sent me a
nice donation, but apparently it felt awkward enough for them to do so via
PayPal that they contacted me directly afterwards, to make sure that the
donation really did come through.
The recent discussion about "Big environment" deployments of Xymon clearly
shows that there are some places where Xymon is *really* used a lot. So
maybe there are more companies who could be convinced to support Xymon - me
- with donations.
So what I came up with was this:
"I do have a company registered here in Denmark, so perhaps I should
consider using that for accepting corporate donations. Then I can
provide genuine invoices, VAT-numbers etc - all the stuff that companies
normally expect when they buy software. And they can transfer the amount to
an official bank account with a proper IBAN bank account number ..."
And to make this a bit more formalised, I've added this page to the Xymon
website: http://www.xymon.com/license/
It is important for me to emphasize that Xymon is, and always will be,
available free of charge under an open source license - regardless of how or
where it is being used. So when I write about "buying a license" to use
Xymon, it is only because that is the kind of language most manager-types
can understand (hmm, I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone with that
blatant generalisation). You will not be required to buy a license - but it
gives you a really nice feeling :-)
I'd appreciate any thoughs you have about this, and if You'd rather discuss
it off-list just mail me directly.
Regards,
Henrik
--
T.J. Yang