Evercast Forked OBS and is now charging $500/month?

[upstairsdownstairs]

Has the OBS project caught wind of Evercast?

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They legit forked OBS renamed it EBS and now are charging $500 for access to it.

GitHub - CoSMoSoftware/OBS-studio-webrtc: This is a fork of OBS-studio with generic support for webrtc. It leverages the same webrtc implementation most browsers use.

This is a fork of OBS-studio with generic support for webrtc. It leverages the same webrtc implementation most browsers use. - CoSMoSoftware/OBS-studio-webrtc

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I thought this was against the whole open source thing. And yeah I'm just genuinely curious about it, our company just canceled a deal once I started using it. I was like, "this software looks familiar why in the world would we pay for it" and made management cancel a contract.

 

[masterachi]

Whilst Evercast seem to have gone to great efforts to hide the fact that their 'EBS' software is a fork of OBS with WebRTC support - they are not charging $500/month for EBS. They are charging $500/month for access to the Evercast platform. The actual EBS software is freely available to anyone, but is useless without an Evercast subscription. They could certainly do a better job of crediting the original OBS authors though.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

I thought this was against the whole open source thing.

Actually, not against, but actually one of the main benefits of FOSS. One can fork it, and then if the fork becomes popular, the updated/different features/design can motivate changes (if not simply be incorporated directly) in the parent/source
What is against the most FOSS licenses is to take the source code and just charge for it. One is typically supposed (depends on exactly which license the source originally released under) to also release ones fork as FOSS.
- But charging for Support (RedHat, etc) or other specific new/additional features is certainly ok, and may even be a very good way to drive innovation and support for ecosystem... but this idea is, or can quickly, lead to heated philosophical debates... and I have no interest in such