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Delete some stuff that made it into the report; update notes about projects

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......@@ -7,58 +7,20 @@ Markdown) if you want.
Note that some of these examples are still just pointers that will
need followup.
* The license now named the "Bootstrap Open Source License" (BOSL) was
formerly known as the "Transitive Grace Period Public Licence"
(TGPPL).
* Stuff about TGGPL:
The 2020 blog post [Introducing BOSL, a radically new type of
open-source
license](https://electriccoin.co/blog/introducing-tgppl-a-radically-new-type-of-open-source-license/)
discusses the license and gives some examples of its use.
discusses BOSL license and gives some examples of its use.
An earlier (2010) writeup about TGPPL from Ted T'so is
[The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence: good ideas come
around…](https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2010/01/20/the-transitive-grace-period-public-licence-good-ideas-come-around/).
[Tahoe-LAFS](https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs) seems to have
a somewhat complicated (though still open source) licensing
situation, but it appears to be also published under the TGPPL?
And Zooko might be using BOSL or TGPPL for other things as well.
(See also https://github.com/zooko/tgppl -- note that Richard
Fontana is in the commit history there.)
* Aladdin Ghostscript
* Akka (BUSL) [license FAQ](https://www.lightbend.com/akka/license-faq)
They moved to BSL last year; after 3 years, code switches from BSL
to Apache 2.0. From [their blog
post](https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-license-for-akka):
> ...
> The new license for Akka is the Business Source License (BSL)
> v1.1, with an additional usage grant to cover some open source
> usage of Akka, such as part of the Play Framework. The BSL was
> created by David Axmark and Michael Widenius and has been
> adopted by MariaDB, Cockroach Labs, Sentry, Materialized, and
> others.
>
> The BSL is a “Source Available” license that freely allows using
> the code for development and other non-production work such as
> testing. Production use of the software requires a commercial
> license from Lightbend. The commercial license will be available
> at no charge for early-stage companies (less than US $25 million
> in annual revenue). By enabling early-stage companies to use
> Akka in production for free, we hope to continue to foster the
> innovation synonymous with the startup adoption of Akka.
>
> After 3 years, the BSL license indefinitely reverts to an Apache
> 2.0 license. A [detailed FAQ](http://lightbend.com/akka/license-faq) is available to answer many of the
> questions that you will have about the license change. You can
> see our version of the BSL [here](https://lightbend.com/akka/license).
> ...
* [Atom (text editor)](https://atom-editor.cc/blog/2014/05/06/atom-is-now-open-source/)
(suggested by @Zaeraxa in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745772)
......@@ -69,8 +31,6 @@ need followup.
Probably not DOSP: simultaneous dual license.
* CockroachDB (BUSL) [licensing FAQs](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs)
* FreeBSD netgraph
Have not found any reference to licensing so far.
......@@ -103,32 +63,9 @@ need followup.
their way of operating probably warrants mention in the Appendix, as
people interested in DOSP would also want to know about this.
* Hashicorp and BUSL
- https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#Why-is-HashiCorp-making-this-change
- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
* MariaDB
Always GPL. People may be thinking of the company's development of BUSL
which was applied to other software (MaxScale).
* _MindLogger_ from Child Mind Institute
- uses its self-rolled _"Delayed Open Source Attribution License"_
- [license file on GH](https://github.com/ChildMindInstitute/mindlogger-applet-builder/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
YES: Delayed open source (noncommercial uses only) with a three-year delay.
* MkDocs
* North Road (geospatial software company) [projects](https://north-road.com/#)
@jjgreen followed up in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745772
to say: "North Road's SLYR (ESRI to QGIS Compatibility Suite) does
that (and rather good code it is too). https://north-road.com/slyr/ .
I see North Road is actually on your list, but eventual openness not
obvious. I think that's clear for SLYR at least."
---> Follows bounty method with scheduled six-month delay.
I haven't found any delayed licensing information.
* Onivim 2 (was this unplanned?) [issue](https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3771)
see also https://v2.onivim.io/early-access-portal and
......@@ -150,27 +87,26 @@ need followup.
* OPSI ["co-funding"](https://www.opsi.org/de/dokumentation/opsi-lizenz-und-copyright) (see also [this forum link](https://forum.opsi.org/viewtopic.php?t=1193))
They have clearly used a form of delayed open source release in the past in
connection with a bounty-like co-funding mechanism, which is still alluded
to on the company's web site. However, it's not clear that this model is
actively used anymore for the majority of development (if at all), as most
of the code appears to be under an open core model with a subscription model
for proprietary extensions.
* [OTRS](https://www.znuny.org/en/blog/why) (open source -> delayed ->
proprietary), but one person said that the announced delayed open release
never actually happened.
* Pixelfed ["will be open sourced when we reach v1"](https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps)
* [PKMN Classic Framework](https://github.com/mm201/pkmn-classic-framework)
(a reverse-engineered third-party Pokémon game server?) has a conditional
relicensing if the developer's official server instance goes offline in
the future
* Qt (officially delayed releases in the past from Trolltech?)
* "searchcode" server under an "eventually open license" according to the post
[GPL Time-bomb an interesting approach to #FOSS licensing](https://boyter.org/2016/08/gpl-time-bomb-interesting-approach-foss-licensing/)
by Ben Boyter.
* [Sentry](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE)
(Business Source License (BUSL)); Codecov (also from Sentry) is also BUSL.
See https://blog.sentry.io/lets-talk-about-open-source/.
https://searchcodeserver.com/knowledge-base/eventually-open.html
* [Zed](https://zed.dev/blog/open-sourcing-zed-on-zed)
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