Shinobi CE and Shinobi Pro

The difference between Shinobi Community Edition and Shinobi Professional is subtle but important.

17/06/2018 3:21 PM

The License for the Pro repository was Creative Commons v.40 now it is the custom Shinobi Open Source EULA.

Shinobi CE is the same code you know and love. It is still under GPLv3. This means you can use it for commercial purposes without permission. You must only make sure the Shinobi logo is always shown and that any copyright notices are always present and never removed.

Shinobi Pro is by nature the same in code. The main differences are noted below.

You will be invited to the private communtiy chat when your subscription becomes valid. If your subscription is cancelled you will be removed from the private community chat.

Trust. I made this software, tracking usage is not a difficult task. I haven’t begun doing it simply by choice. I can monitor the download traffic to Shinobi Pro so if it starts getting crazy with little contribution then things will get legal.

Sure! You can personal message me on Discord or fill out the Contact form with any concerns you may have.

A few users felt it was their duty to post in the Issues section when it was explicitly stated the issues section is only for bugs with the software, Not personal opinions or general discussion. Please don’t do this.

On the official Contributing page, which is actually linked to from the Github Wiki, it is stated :
“All contributed code becomes the property of Shinobi. All contributors give permission to Shinobi and Shinobi developers to use the code however it is seen fit. This is agreed upon when making your first commit.”

I have written this as simple as possible. As much as it is a restricting policy it makes maintaining the application simple. The main premise of Shinobi is to keep things simple even when we are handling something complex.

Don’t agree with these rules? Then don’t commit or make a pull request to remove your code. Understand though that you have already accepted these guidelines and we reserve the right to reject the request if the code is irreplaceable or needed to function, as the code now belongs to Shinobi. Once a “reversion request” is reviewed and accepted we will get into changing the code to not use your specified snippets.

In your fork it is, that is what the GPL license actually covers. But due to the notice I put on the website anything that is contributed becomes property of Shinobi.

Yes I can actually. I could make the program closed source if I wanted to. I hold that right as the only copyright holder. Its just that all previous versions and any version from CE will not be held under any changes to the license. The copy you have with GPLv3 is always going to be GPLv3.

I love Shinobi. I want to share it with everyone. That is why I released it for free to begin with… but things have changed. I no longer have the luxury of giving things away. I tried doing a voluntary contribution program but that didn’t gain much traction.

Shinobi Pro is a paid application because I want to give back what I have been given and hopefully more.

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