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We've had Source-Available licenses for years (MS-PL for instance, as well as many various ones from Sun/Oracle, etc.) There's basically been a resounding "Meh

We've had Source-Available licenses for years (MS-PL for instance, as well as many various ones from Sun/Oracle, etc.) There's basically been a resounding "Meh" about them and the people who work on software that adopts them generally move to an open fork or the project perishes (see also the fate of Solaris, Illumos, and Oracle.)

orra 4y ago
Quite. Proprietary source available projects are 'meh'. In the past few years, it seems several notable company-backed projects have switched from the Apache licence, to some proprietary licence. I'd much prefer if instead they tried switching to a strong copyleft licence. (Granted, 'delayed open source' is far better than 'never open source'.)