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Personally I'm a fan of MariaDB's "Business Source License". Enough of the benefits of open source that I can trust your product, but enough of the benefits of
by traverseda 5y ago
Personally I'm a fan of MariaDB's "Business Source License". Enough of the benefits of open source that I can trust your product, but enough of the benefits of closed source that you can use whatever monetization strategy you want.
It seems like a pretty good compromise to me.
- didip 5y agoCan you explain to me briefly what does business source license mean?
- traverseda 5y agoShared source that becomes truly open source after 5 years. This means that if the company managing the source code does really poorly someone else can fork it commercially, but only the version from 5 years ago. This protects users in the cases the managing company goes out of business, or goes evil, but still lets them put in arbitrary commercial restrictions.