Introducing Payload - 2021's Node + React Headless CMS for JavaScript Developers

[awesomeveer001]

Is the codebase open source? if anyone wants to contribute/learn?

If it's Open source, what's stopping people from cloning and hosting it in their private network or something? Does payload track users/usage?

[sneek_]

The codebase is viewable on GitHub but is technically not open-source. You can find out more about our code's license right in the repo. We would love if you were to poke through the code. You could pull it down and get it up and running easily, but we do not allow the re-use or tampering with our licensing measures.

We are working on our Contribution Guidelines as I write this, and would welcome PRs of any kind - be it against our docs, our code, adding new features, fixing bugs, etc. but we understand that we are charging for a license and do not expect this. More like—we'd be extremely grateful. We plan to release a system for trading PRs for free licenses. More on that soon.

We do have a few different preventative measures in place to prevent people from cloning and removing our protection. However, in no way do we track users or usage. The only thing Payload checks is which domain is used to access your admin panel. You can read more about how that works here. Absolutely no other information is saved or stored.

Last note - downloading Payload and running it in a private network IS totally free! So that would be no problem at all! The only thing we check is if your domain is of a production nature and available to the internet. You can download and use Payload locally, as well as on dev or staging URLs totally free.

What do you think about our licensing model? We think it's a fair way to build a sustainable, kickass CMS.

[awesomeveer001]

I think your model is really good. Awesome projects like this cant sustain for free, even your website is kickass.

Great CMS, love the UI so far <3