Enhancement (Meta): Adjust our support strategies for companies
Summary
Clarify, and add (via Polar.sh w/ @birkjernstrom's 2024 work planed) support tiers that can support scenarios where regulation, security, or other factors require an official support plan:
We are
XYZcompany and are putting in a new policy that we can't use any open source that can't be supported under some kind of support contract. To continue using Litestar we need to be able to have this support level.
Basic Example
Some other examples from FOSS work:
- MkDocs Material (sponsorware) https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
- Authlib (The license here is confusing, and prohibitive.. ours would remain MIT but just noting that they have a corporate-level support tier.)
- https://github.com/sponsors/tiangolo has business/support tiers
- Ghost has some benefit-enabled tiers: https://github.com/sponsors/TryGhost
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How do we support this? Some examples in [Basic Example] above
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