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You can't use BSL software in production without an additional usage grant: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/ https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/

• sofixa 3y ago
  In practice are there any BSL adopters that don't give a usage grant for production use? All those I've encountered only forbid stuff like hosting to compete with the original software creator, not actually using it in production.
  • sea-gold 3y ago
    It may not be common, but I did find these (fairly popular projects) which don't appear to allow production usage: https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs/blob/master/L... https://github.com/exaloop/codon/blob/develop/LICENSE https://github.com/exaloop/codon/blob/develop/LICENSE Here are some others: https://github.com/search?q=%22Business+Source+License%22+%22Additional+Use+Grant%3A+None%22&type=code&p=1 https://github.com/search?q=%22Business+Source+License%22+%2...
• wongarsu 3y ago
  You are right for the pure BSL. I was misremembering because e.g. Hashicorp just give a blanket Additional Use Grant for production use that doesn't compete with the licensed product [1]. MariaDB is a lot less generous, e.g. restricting you to less than three production servers for MaxScale. So the ability to self-host BSL code depends a lot on the chosen Additional Use Grant. I don't mind Hashicorp's, but the one publicly offered by MariaDB is pretty restricting. 1: https://www.hashicorp.com/bsl https://www.hashicorp.com/bsl
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