However it's the kind of license that's gated behind a manual signup:

> If you would like to request a Community Edition license, please provide:

> Confirmation that you understood the qualifying criteria

> Your category (for-profit, non-profit, charity)

> Your (company) name

> Your address

> Your contact email

This seems to be reflected in that you cannot find any official Docker images, for example: https://hub.docker.com/search?q=identityserver

Contrast that to: https://hub.docker.com/r/keycloak/keycloak (admittedly, the Bitnami containers are better, since those provide good documentation right in Docker Hub, instead of being lazy like Keycloak did and just putting it on their site)

Overall, the licensing situation with IdentityServer seems interesting, perhaps a bit more restrictive than Keycloak or other competitors: https://leastprivilege.com/2020/10/01/the-future-of-identity...

Regardless, to me being able to download software without messing about with signups and justifying why I need it feels like a good litmus test for some of the culture and community behind it. Regardless, I don't think that there are any truly excellent solutions in this space out there.

Then again, you see basically the same with the likes of OpenLDAP, FreeIPA and others that still don't quite compete with Microsoft's AD. There's a lot of problems (identity and device management, authentication/authorization gateways etc.) that could have great OSS solutions for them, if at the end of the day everything didn't circle back to money. Oh well.