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#closedForkWarning
https://github.com/minio/minio

https://fosstodon.org/@peaklabs_dev/116085622327344042

#OpenSource #licensing

@horovits #ClosedForkWarning

@tcarrez #ClosedForkWarning

Actually they have closed in 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis

@axwax @grahamdunning @disquiet

Are they using a change from GPLv2 to GPLv3 as a way to lure all committers on to signing a CLA which will *also* allow them to dual-license with a closed license?

Surely, they can't be _that_ evil...

#closedForkWarning #openSource #cla

@ariadne @richlitt

Article contains a list of #ClosedForkWarning cases

#OpenSource #Licensing

@richlitt

@kfogel is also researching #ClosedForkWarning

Specifically the "delayed open source publication" #DOSP movement which is also a fake #OpenSource fork.

@richlitt

I'm tagging all new about projects that became closed with the tag #ClosedForkWarning

Lightbend changed the license on all Akka modules from Apache 2.0 to the BSL v1.1 (Business Source License) starting with Akka v2.7.

#ClosedForkWarning #ClosedSource #akka #programmingLanguage #OpenSource(not)

https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/open_source_biz_sick_of/

Looking for more (recent or not) examples of #OpenSource projects that have been closed and forked into a closed or non OSI-approved licenses.

#ClosedForkWarning

Looking for more (recent or not) examples of #OpenSource projects that have been closed and forked into a closed or non OSI-approved licenses.

#ClosedForkWarning

#OpenSource #ClosedForkWarning

Work on 160x Python compiler acceleration https://github.com/seq-lang/seq has been archived on 2022-12-08 and forked in to a closed-source project (BSL 1.1 until 2025).