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is this fully open sourced. I have to use this for a business purpose?
Yes, commercial use is allowed.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/LICENSE
To be specific, you are allowed to use NodeBB to host for most purposes, although you are not allowed to redistribute changed copies of NodeBB unless you also publish that source code.
