The "Contribute or Pay" Paradigm

The “Contribute or Pay” paradigm is a stable and well-balanced software development and business model for all actors, leveraging open source contribution model and best practices, but adapting to the actual need of business application architecture development with a software editor approach:

The best of both worlds.

In order to enforce a strong quid-pro-quo paradigm within the Jahia community, active contributors are encouraged with discounts or even license suppression according to their contributions to the project while "passive users" (free-riders) have to pay some license fees. All contributors can then be rewarded for their work. This is why we called this commercial license with source "sustainable".

In one sentence :
Secure Your Enterprise Content and Portal Management Software Architecture on a long term range