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Re: Licence question: using AGPL and Odoo proprietary modules on the same server

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Re: Licence question: using AGPL and Odoo proprietary modules on the same server

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Tecnativa. S. L., Pedro M. Baeza
- 12/09/2025 15:29:21
So you have provided the perfect example for confirming the hypothesis that going LGPL, the number of contributions will be reduced: how can it be that Tecnativa, having only 10 persons, contributes 4x more than companies like Camptocamp/Acsone, that have 40/50 persons?

They develop on top of enterprise modules, which they can't share, so they don't contribute to OCA.

They develop more private things, as they are allowed due to the license being LGPL, so they don't contribute back to OCA.

And again, remember the big vendor lock-in you are imposing on your customers installing enterprise modules, being the vendor Odoo S.A., not you. And even not advertising that to your customers (by ignorance or complacency). That's the big win of Odoo doing that the conversation doesn't turn around this.

Regards.

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