@@ -178,9 +178,8 @@ The Linux Foundation noted (\otsurl{https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/how-ope
that several prominent projects switched away from open-source licenses
from 2018 to 2023. Not all of these adopted DOSP licenses, but those that did
so adopted BUSL.
These included CockroachDB (2019-06-04), Couchbase (2021-03-26), Terraform
(2023-08-10), and ArangoDB (2023-10-11). The most prominent of these BUSL
adopters was HashiCorp, which wrote
These included CockroachDB, Couchbase, Terraform, and ArangoDB. The most prominent of
these BUSL adopters was HashiCorp, which wrote
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BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years. These companies include Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Sentry, and MariaDB, which developed this license in 2013. Companies including Confluent, MongoDB, Elastic, Redis Labs, and others have also adopted alternative licenses that include restrictions on commercial usage. In all these cases, the license enables the commercial sponsor to have more control around commercialization.
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@@ -189,51 +188,29 @@ BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistr
This change applied to almost all of the company's software, including popular
software like Terraform, Vagrant, and Hashicorp Vault.
Materialize\footnote{Not to be confused with the Materialize CSS project, which is released under the MIT license.} & 2020-02-07 & daily +4 years\footnote{Differently from other BUSL-licensed projects, Materialize uses a bot to update the Change Date every day (not just on the occasion of release events), so that it always reflects a date exactly four years after the present date.} & Apache v2 & REF \\