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Commit 149d122d authored by Seth Schoen's avatar Seth Schoen
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Add paragraph about need for repeated Change Date updates

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\end{longtable}
BUSL is notionally designed to apply to specific software \emph{releases},
so that a Change Date applies to a particular version of a code base.
That means that, for a project with an ongoing DOSP practice, BUSL is meant
to be re-applied periodically with updated details. The majority of projects
we've seen have not yet demonstrated how they'll handle this process on
an ongoing basis. Most don't have a clearly-visible and systematic way to
apply BUSL updates to ongoing development, although one project (Materialize)
automatically updates its BUSL grant every day in order to keep the Change
Date at a fixed point in the future. For some projects, it is unclear at
first glance exactly which version or versions of the code base the BUSL
grant is meant to apply to. The Change Date concept may be complicated by
the fact that not all contemporary software projects have a reliable
schedule of discrete ``release'' events.
\subsubsection{Differences From Other Licensing Strategies}\label{differences}
MariaDB describes some of the differences between BUSL and other
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