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Commit 8d455dc5 authored by Seth Schoen's avatar Seth Schoen
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Note Ben Boyter's eventually-open mechanism

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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:
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