#relicensing — Public Fediverse posts

Going through backlog in podcasts and had an old Changelog episode mentions the Free as in Freedom ( FaiF ) podcast. If you're interested in FLOSS licensing ( or FLOSS in general ) and haven't listened to FaiF you should grab the back catalog and listen to it

Changeloggers mentioned Karen having been on the show in the past

I episode down, two episodes added to queue :)

https://changelog.com/podcast/424 <-- FaiF mention

#podcast #Changelog #FaiF #FLOSSlicensing #SFconservancy #relicensing

Can Agentic AI Coding Tools Finally End Copyright For Software While Re-Inventing Open Source?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/can-agentic-ai-coding-tools-finally-end-copyright-for-software-while-re-inventing-open-source/

As I already wrote before, the whole copyright/copyleft matter is totally inadequate to modern times. That's the only sure thing now

#AI #relicensing #coding #endofcoding

https://lwn.net/Articles/1061534/

Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite

https://tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/

#HackerNews #Relicensing #AI #AIRewriting #TechInnovation #SoftwareDevelopment

#OpenSource Isn't Dead...It's Just Forked
#Relicensing has forced the open source world to confront its identity crisis. Are we building digital commons, or are we just subsidizing corporate profit? The answer lies in how we interpret and address the motivations behind relicensing and the community’s response to it.
Critics see it as a breach of trust, where corporate priorities overshadow the ethos of open collaboration.
https://hackernoon.com/open-source-isnt-deadits-just-forked

Another #opensource #database turns to the dark side.
#scylladb announced discontinuing its OSS edition (AGPL license), and #relicensing the Enterprise edition to a source-available (non #FOSS) one.

Remember folks: vendor-owned open source is an oxymoron.
https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6

William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant states that open source is sustainable under a single vendor as long as they "have clear economic incentives to keep doing what they're doing".

But he avoids the elephant in the room.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7261485884422668288/

#opensource #sustainability #foss #relicensing #kubecon

The most exciting moment of Open Source Summit 2024 last month for me wasn't when I went on stage.

It was at the very first minutes of the conference, during the opening keynote,
when I saw my humble blog post "When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side" featured 🤩

It was surreal to see my personal blog quoted alongside The New York Times, WIRED and the European Commission's Joinup magazine 😍

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7249680992339193856/
#ossummit #opensource #FOSS #relicensing #devrel @linuxfoundation

Sentry is running a campaign for the new marketing term "fair source". Currently this boils down to their new Functional Source License (FSL).
So far there's not much traction: GitButler and four early stage startups.
What differentiation does this new category offer from source available?
And most importantly, it doesn't address the main concern:
When owned by a single vendor, project license is volatile. https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6

#opensource #sourceavailable #fairsource #FOSS #relicensing

Isn't it curious that #Elasticsearch was added an open source license just a week before #OpenSearch joined The Linux Foundation? 🤔
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7236361455938265089/
#relicensing #ossummit #opensource #foss @linuxfoundation

W00t my blog post "When your open source turns to the dark side" is featured on the Open Source Summit Europe keynote by Gabriele Columbro!https://horovits.medium.com/when-your-open-source-turns-to-the-dark-side-331d83f182c
#ossummit #ossummiteu #opensource #relicensing @linuxfoundation

In case you were on summer holiday and missed it:
Last week #Elaticsearch was relicensed, again.
Three years after Elastic took it off open source.

I scribed a few notes about this move:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7236361455938265089/
#opensource #relicensing #elk #elkstack #kibana #agpl #foss

Elastic's title got me so excited.
Then I read the fine print.
No, Elasticsearch isn't going back to the original Apache2 license.
Instead it's adding AGPL copyleft license (on top of the non-FOSS ones).
It wants to regain its open source status, yet own it.

#elasticsearch #relicensing #agpl #license #kibana #opensource #foss #elastic #database

Here it goes again. Cockroach Labs is moving #CockroachDB to a fully proprietary license.
To be fair, they've already shifted away from #opensource back in 2019, when they replaced Apache2 with Business Source License #BSL for their Core.
(* just realized they've taken down the 2019 blog)

This joins the recent #relicensing of #Redis, #Terraform and other prominent #FOSS projects. Which brings us back to the fundamental question:
𝗜𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘅𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻?
https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6

Developers Can Head Off Open Source Licensing Problems | @TheNewStack

https://thenewstack.io/how-developers-can-head-off-open-source-licensing-problems/
#opensource #relicensing #terraform #opentofu #opensearch @Lowrain

Why should you care that an open source project you use is controlled by a single vendor?
Check out my OpenObservability Talks episode with David Nalley @ke4qqq, Open Source Strategy Director at #AWS and President of the Apache Software Foundation
@TheASF:
https://logz.io/blog/foss-in-flux-redis-relicensing-and-the-future-of-open-source/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel
@awsopen
#opensource #sustainability #relicensing #foss #awsopen

Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor?
https://medium.com/p/081eb787a507
#redis #valkey #opensource #caching #relicensing #streaming #data

in the meantime, see my blog post with some sneak preview regarding #Redis relicensing, and the #FOSS in flux situation in general
https://horovits.medium.com/foss-in-flux-redis-relicensing-and-the-future-of-open-source-a959774bba6d
#opensource #relicensing #OSS #Valkey #fork

I don't use Benthos, but @richardartoul shares in his blog that in the hours after Redpanda acquired #Benthos #opensource it "began transitioning it to a proprietary software model".
Which led @warpstream_labs to fork it.
Another FOSS turning to the dark side? Curious to hear more
https://medium.com/@warpstream/announcing-bento-the-open-source-fork-of-the-project-formerly-known-as-benthos-e01a4b9a7aa8
#relicensing #kafka #streaming

📢 May episode of OpenObservability Talks is out - 4th Season Finale! 📢

With all the recent cases of #opensource projects "turning to the dark side", topped with the recent #Redis #relicensing (and the community led fork #Valkey ) it was time to look into the state of #FOSS (free and open source software).

I was joined by David Nalley, Director of Open Source Strategy at #AWS, President of the The Apache Software Foundation @TheASF and a FOSS veteran for over 2 decades

https://medium.com/p/a959774bba6d

IBM looking to acquire HashiCorp.
Looks like Hashi's recent move to lock in open source customers and force them into its commercial products is paying off. Stay tuned.
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-deal-for-cloud-software-provider-cf146448
#hashicorp #ibm #opensource #relicensing #terraform

Missed my talk at #SRECon Americas last month on #opensource turning to the dark side? Good news: USENIX Association just published it to YouTube😍
With everything that's happening around #HashiCorp #Terraform #OpenTofu #Redis and more - you'd find it more relevant than ever:
▶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss99i2o4zA8

* My article: Is “vendor owned open source” an oxymoron? https://lnkd.in/duqJHQ5

* Recordings of the my other talks from last month's CA trip: https://lnkd.in/d8ngTcXY

#relicensing #fork #FOSS

The dark side of open source goes beyond rights ratchet.

Sad to see HashiCorp, the once great FOSS champion, reducing itself to legal intimidation of OSS projects it perceives as competition.

If it's indeed FUD, OpenTofu will come out stronger in the community, while Hashi wanes.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/horovits_the-dark-side-of-open-source-goes-beyond-activity-7182470698638970881-FGZN

#opensource #HashiCorp #opentofu #bsl #relicensing #foss

Apropos #Redis #relicensing Microsoft released a new #opensource remote cache-store named #Garnet.
Among other benefits, it supports a large fraction of the Redis API surface, and you can use it from unmodified Redis clients (as it uses the RESP wire protocol).
▫ GitHub repo: https://lnkd.in/dumUFHXg
▫ Announcement: https://lnkd.in/dDtsJMgu
▫ Website: https://lnkd.in/dn9AY6cn

@juliobiason
#Copyright holders can relicense their work under any license they like anytime.
Yet: 1)Usually the original authors are the copyright holders
2) #relicensing should comply with other licensed works (I.e. libraries, frameworks and so on)
3) AFAICS #BSD and #Apache #licenses does not have termination clauses that actually works

🚨 #Redis is moving away from #opensource and into source-available model.
Funny enough, I just landed in from #SRECon Americas, after giving a talk about the dark side of open source, to find this fresh example ☹️
Is vendor-owened open source an oxymoron?
https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6

#relicensing #FOSS @osi

"Upon reflection, I’ve come to realize that the #relicensing trend towards non-compete licenses has exposed single-vendor #OpenSource software for what it truly is: #proprietary software in hiding (or neo-proprietary, as Dirk Riehle said a few years ago). This post will go into detail on how I came to this conclusion."

https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/

#HashiCorp Is Weighing a Potential Sale --> is that the rationale behind its sharp turn away from #opensource in the past half a year, #relicensing #Terraform and other projects?
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/software-company-hashicorp-is-said-to-weigh-potential-sale

⏰ MONDAY at 𝗦𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘀 I'll discuss #OSS turning to the dark side, and how to keep safe.
👉 https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/presentation/horovits

#scale21x #kubecon #srecon #opentofu

We keep hearing about #opensource #relicensing or otherwise turning to the dark side.
Next month at #SREcon Americas I'll discuss past cases and how to keep safe when adopting #OSS tools.
Can't wait to hear your experience and thoughts on this topic.
See you March 18th in San Francisco.
If you're around DM me and let's catch up!
😎 May the open source be with you 😎
https://usenix.org/conference/srecon24americas/presentation/horovits
#SRE #devops #FOSS

ICYMI #OpenTofu, the Terraform #opensource fork, has reached GA. 🎊
I had the privilege of joining a panel discussion on the this important milestone, where we discussed the project's journey, the #IaC roadmap, and risks of #OSS #relicensing and how to mitigate them.
Check it out on the latest episode of the Infrastructure as Code Podcast:
https://theiacpodcast.com/episode/expert-panel-on-opentofu-ga-release-licensing-and-oss-future

Got used to #OpenTF? well, now get used to #OpenTofu 😄
Yes, that's the new name for the #Terraform fork:
http://github.com/opentofu
Wait, that's not all: OpenTofu is now officially part of the @linuxfoundation!
Want to learn more about the project and the exciting news?
Check out my fireside chat with
@omryhay on OpenObservability Talks podcast:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5QdUs9VKq5g
#opensource #relicensing #ossummit

Look what's taking center stage on #ossummit keynote.
Is vendor-owned #opensource an oxymoron?
https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6
#opentf #openela #relicensing

Title: "Welcome to the Grafana Labs family, Pyroscope!"

Details: "Re-license Grafana Pyroscope to AGPLv3"

another Apache2 #foss going #copyleft

As I say: Is vendor owned #opensource an oxymoron?
https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6

#grafana #pyroscope #continuousprofiling #relicensing