diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx index 3ed4303a7beb83fc6b20025512e46fcab6946246..2185a962bc8af9024a0671f7c0ab4b0a666b6fbb 100644 --- a/dosp-survey.ltx +++ b/dosp-survey.ltx @@ -216,7 +216,24 @@ This is echoed in statements by several BUSL adopters that they sought a way to \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}