From 6cde05b2b5ebc6da723a46b6f436746309ed6c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seth Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:47:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Note controversy about "BUSL" vs. "BSL" --- notes.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/notes.md b/notes.md index ddd23f2..bf20000 100644 --- a/notes.md +++ b/notes.md @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ This file contains free-form notes. Anyone working on this project, please feel free to reformat this (including to something other than Markdown) if you want. +# An annoying nomenclature problem + +Even though we seem to think that the Business Source License should be +called BUSL, most of its end-users seem to refer to it as BSL! It +may be awkward if we end up having a ton of citations where we say +things like "the project FooWare announced it was using BUSL in 2022 +(see 'Announcing FooCorp's Switch to BSL')". + # Examples Note that some of these examples are still just pointers that will -- GitLab