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the boozle has always been a bad license template (the busl itself isn't a license). there are many things wrong with it, but this is one of the worst.

https://github.com/captn3m0/finally-foss/issues/4

"source available" is always a scam.

#opensource #busl #osi

Opinion: Is a split imminent? – Synadia demands NATS back from the CNCF
https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Opinion-Is-a-split-imminent-Synadia-demands-NATS-back-from-the-CNCF-10366963.html
#ycombinator #BUSL #Business_Source_License #Cloud_Native_Computing #Markenrecht #NATS #Open_Source #Synadia #cncf

Well then, #synadia wants to withdraw #nats from the #CNCF to slap a #BUSL on it. 🫠

Even with being the main contributor, you shouldn't be able undo a donation. ⚰️

For me, pushing the point to use #AGPL. Makes extremely difficult to try to relicense like this.

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/

The whole #redis situation has gotten me thinking of licenses. Far more than I would like. 🫠

I'm now of the camp either do strong #copyleft, like #AGPL, or don't do #FOSS. Go for something like #BUSL or #FSL instead.

Everything else in between seems to break apart and be taken advantage of. ⚰️ By both the license holder and the copies. 😅

#OpenSource in Numbers: #Terraform License Change Impact on Contribution
Increase in pull requests after change to #BSL might seem like positive sign. However, data reveals nuanced picture. Evaluation captures 30-day preceding and following date of #BUSL license change (Aug 10) marked significant drop in community contributions, with only 9.30% of all pull requests being opened by the community. This downtrend persisted into September, with nearly identical rate of 9.52%. https://thenewstack.io/open-source-in-numbers-the-terraform-license-change-impact-on-contribution/

🚢 New Changelog interview!

This week we’re talking about the launch of #OpenTF and what it’s going to take to successfully fork HashiCorp’s #Terraform 🍴

We’re joined by Josh Padnick to discuss what exactly happened, how #HashiCorp’s license change changes things, who has been impacted by this change, and ultimately what they are doing about it 💪

#opensource #mit #bsl #busl #infrastructure #devops

🫡 hosted by @adam & @jerod

🎧 https://changelog.fm/556

Still a bit gutted by the #hashicorp move to #busl 1.1. I completely understand their reasoning, but dammit does that emit #FUD. 😔

I don't expect hashicorp to do anything ill advised. But it's not them I'm worried about. It's any goliath coming along to scoop them up. Too many times this happened with excellent software companies. Moving to a far worse direction due to the licensing. ⚰️

Looking at you #Oracle. 😡 Still upset at that one for like 1000th time.

Looks like #HashiCorp is keeping the 1.9 branch of #Packer under the #MPL-2.0, and I assume 1.10(?) will use the #BUSL-1.1 license.

Building 1.9.3 for #COPR soon...

https://fosstodon.org/@omenos/110895471715396206

Tell me you don't care about #opensource without telling me you don't care about open source.

Unsurprisingly, this comes from the #MongoDB developer relations guy.

All the #BUSL #BSL companies are trying to normalize it, supporting each other with nonsense PR.

The #realpolitik is that they never cared about open-source ideals. They only cared about free labor and market share.

🙄

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704809/hashicorps-software-license-turns-realpolitik.html

#hashicorp #licensing

Anyone else remember how #MariaDB company adopting the "Business Source License" for MaxScale made MaxScale and the company super-profitable? No one? Oh yeah, that's because it didn't. #Hashicorp #BUSL #opensource

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3693711/after-job-cuts-mariadb-faces-uncertain-financial-future.html

HashiCorp drops open source for 'source available'

Company joins MongoDB, Elastic, Confluent and others saying 'you can't compete directly with us'

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4122071/hashicorp-drops-open-source-source

#opensource #hashicorp #bsl #busl #technews #mongodb #technology

Predicting plausible arrangements of tokens is easy.

Predicting the timing is hard.
#HashiCorp #BSL #BUSL #OSS #FOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GenAI
https://twitter.com/itaysk/status/1625940995559882753