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Except with BSL it will still be available as an open source software at some point in the future. This is certainly better than moving to a non-free-and-will-n
by notpushkin 3y ago
Except with BSL it will still be available as an open source software at some point in the future. This is certainly better than moving to a non-free-and-will-never-be kind of license.
However, the way they've also changed “community edition” builds to forbid commercial usage is kinda fucked up.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoSure, someday then-obsolete versions will slowly become FOSS, but they aren't for a long time.
- pas 3y agocountless instances of 4 year old software are running in critical roles. if it's so good, then a community can take on the burden of backporting fixes and/or watching for CVEs for 4 years. it's not a long time. it's inconvenient, for sure.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoThey can't backport fixes or look at the newer code for help because that newer code isn't open source yet. It's true that a community that really wanted to could start implementing their own bug fixes, but I wouldn't hold my breath.