Is it ok to charge for plugins in the Discourse community ? Are there any paid plugins out there ? I know the official Discourse hosting offers Business and Enterprise plugins, I am talking about plugin authors charging for plugins. I am creating a plugin, and I would like to consider the option of…

The last time someone tried this, it did not go very well. This had to do with both some legal implications (TL;DR: is a plugin a derivative work?) and by the attitude of said developer (TL;DR: rude).

thanks for the quick feedback. I was in two minds anyway, I love the free model of discourse, and I guess I can always put a link for anyone who would like to donate. It was more out of curiosity – reading the other discussions was quite interesting, thanks for sharing !

Most people who are making a living on plugins do so by making general-purpose plugins open source and charging for support and/or further customization.

A similar business model @ti0 is to build a useful third party application like Slack, GitHub, Sentry, etc and then create and give away a Discourse plugin that integrates Discourse with your commercial 3rd party app.

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) Outubro 28, 2020, 6:29am 2

A última vez que alguém tentou isso, não correu muito bem.

Isso teve a ver tanto com algumas implicações legais (TL;DR: um plugin é uma obra derivada?) quanto com a atitude do referido desenvolvedor (TL;DR: rude).

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