+**"Create an enterprise edition."** I've lived through the open-core playbook from the inside. Kong's split between Gateway OSS and Kong Enterprise, Tyk's gated dashboard and developer portal, Gravitee's community-versus-enterprise feature matrix: I've seen how this plays out. The community version gets slower updates, the best features land behind a paywall, and contributors eventually realize they're building someone else's commercial product. Barbacane's source is AGPLv3. There is no enterprise edition, no paid tier of features. We do offer a commercial license for organisations that cannot comply with AGPL copyleft (typically SaaS vendors building on top of Barbacane), but it unlocks the *same* code, not extra capabilities. Revenue comes from that commercial license and from professional services, not from feature paywalls.
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