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- 2025-04-02
Jimmy Bogard: AutoMapper and MediatR Going Commercial
In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of my OSS projects, I will be commercializing AutoMapper and MediatR.automappermediatr - 2025-03-28
EPPlus 8 replaces LicenseContext with license keys
EPPlus 8 removed the LicenseContext property in favour of an explicit license API - License.SetNonCommercialPersonal, SetNonCommercialOrganization, or SetCommercial with a license key - and throws a LicenseException when nothing is declared. It is a breaking change for every project upgrading from 7, commercial or not.epplus - 2025-03-06
IdentityServer4 is public again
Our Duende development team is committed to delivering the most secure, standards-compliant, trusted identity solutions. While Duende IdentityServer is a fully supported and secure OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for .NET Core, IdentityServer4 has been out of support for a long time. The older IdentityServer4 contains multiple known security vulnerabilities and bugs, and has outdated documentation.identityserver - 2025-02-27
Understanding IdentityServer4's Removal and Its Alternatives
IdentityServer4 has been removed from GitHub, leaving many developers questioning the reasons behind this decision. The maintainers transitioned the project to a commercial model due to challenges in managing its growing popularity. They struggled to cover the costs of maintaining the core codebase. As of November 2022, the project has been rebranded as Duende IdentityServer, requiring a commercial license for most use cases.identityserver4 - 2025-01-16
Dev Class: Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership
Fluent Assertions, formerly an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license, now requires a paid license for commercial use.fluent-assertions - 2025-01-15
Nick Chapsas: Stop Using FluentAssertions Now (YouTube)
Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about the new license change of Fluent Assertions version 8, which forces companies to pay $130 per developer per year.fluent-assertions - 2024-11-02
GitInfo adopts SponsorLink v2 in v3.5
Daniel Cazzulino brought SponsorLink - rebuilt as an open-source, offline check against a locally synced signed manifest - to GitInfo 3.5.0. Consumers who are not sponsors see an editor-only build warning; CLI and CI builds never check sponsorship. It was superseded a year later by the Open Source Maintenance Fee EULA.devloopedmoq - 2024-08-09
What is Wrong with IdentityServer4 and What Alternatives to Choose?
On October 1, 2020 Dominick Baier, one of the IdentityServer founders, published an article that confused the IT community. IdentityServer was rebranded and changed its monetization policy starting in November 2022.identityserver - 2023-08-15
Daniel Cazzulino: SponsorLink: feedback and moving forward
As I mentioned in my introduction post on SponsorLink, open source sustainability is a tricky topic. I have been doing open source for more than 20 years, so I'm not entirely n00b to the space. I don't believe in experts anyway, so I'm just going off of my personal experience, things I read and saw other fellow developers do in the past and so on. So, if it wasn't clear enough, I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. I don't represent the dotnet OSS community, or speak as to how OSS should be/is done or what is right or wrong here.moq - 2023-08-09
YouTube: Remove Moq From Your .NET Projects Right NOW! (YouTube)
Hello, everybody, I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about the Moq and SponsorLink situation that is causing a lot of drama in the .NET community.moq