unscheduled.md



Unscheduled / post-hoc / one-off relicensing
This is probably properly outside the scope of this research, but people
often suggest things like these as examples when asked for projects whose
open source publication was "delayed".

Netscape Navigator
Blender
StarOffice
Qt

... and probably dozens, if not hundreds, of codebases that were released
after companies that were developing them shut down. (But some people say
Blender does not belong in this category.)
Other examples shared with us that seem to have been "unscheduled":

Stackrocks, 3scale, Quay.io, and other Red Hat acquisitions
Kallisto
MS-DOS early versions (!!)
UNIX (the original one from Bell Labs)
TUIPEER

Maybe more ambiguous cases:

Games from id software (routinely released/relicensed after the end of
their main commercial viability, but not on a schedule and not with a
public commitment to do so?)
Ghidra (classified government internal software to declassified open source)


Not sure

Aleph-Alpha has a demo as open source but proprietary licensing for the
official product? https://github.com/Aleph-Alpha/magma

XCP-ng is just a fork of an older codebase after a proprietary
upstream relicensing?