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Commit 7bfa5880 authored by Seth Schoen's avatar Seth Schoen
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Add material on Sentry's draft FSL

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\subsection{Other}
We will mention FSL here.
Sentry has released a draft of its ``Functional Source License" (FSL),
which it hopes to use for its own currently BUSL-licensed software, at
\otsurl{https://fsl.software/}.\footnote{Disclosure:
% TODO: What is the right phrasing for the disclosure here?
}
The FSL prohibits, during a period of one year, uses of covered software
to provide services that ``compete" with the original developer's commercial
service offerings. Following this period, the software is licensed under
BSD or Apache terms, without the competition restriction.
Several cloud-oriented software projects that switched away from open
source licensing in the past few years also adopted license terms with
non-competition clauses. However, these generally were not time-limited.
% TODO: double-check whether any of them were time-limited
% I think it's interesting that the AGPL doesn't seem to appeal to most
% companies that are pursuing this kind of thing. I don't know if any of
% them have commented on their views about it.
\numberedsection{Enforceability}\label{enforce}
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