From 8d455dc56b047a6ce12652575246767de39b3532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seth Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 22:15:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Note Ben Boyter's eventually-open mechanism --- dosp-survey.ltx | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx index a33b5c6..0472118 100644 --- a/dosp-survey.ltx +++ b/dosp-survey.ltx @@ -373,6 +373,17 @@ converts to AGPL if the original developer ceases to operate a service based on the code.\footnote{See \otsurl{https://github.com/mm201/pkmn-classic-framework}.} +Roughly contemporaneously with MariaDB's development of BUSL, Ben +Boyter proposed a ``GPL time bomb" (later renamed to simply +``eventually open") that is conceptually similar to BUSL with an +AUG specifying a limited number of users within an +organization.\footnote{See +\otsurl{https://boyter.org/2016/08/gpl-time-bomb-interesting-approach-foss-licensing/}.} +This approach was used for Boyter's ``searchcode" project\footnote{See +\otsurl{https://www.searchcode.com/}.}, but no new development has +taken place on this codebase since 2020, so it should now be licensed +under GPL v3. + 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: -- GitLab