Elastic Search developed a custom license to prevent strip-mining by AWS. Other companies soon followed, including Timescale, which produced different licenses

Elastic Search developed a custom license to prevent strip-mining by AWS. Other companies soon followed, including Timescale, which produced different licenses in 2018, then 2020, for different purposes to address needs at appropriate stages. Their write-up on the process addresses other licenses that might be of interest to you: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-we-are-building-an-open-source-business-a7701516a480/ https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-we-are-building-an-open-...