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BSL code automatically converts to open source at a specified date. So probably several releases since then are now as open source as anything else in the worl
by cvwright 2y ago
BSL code automatically converts to open source at a specified date. So probably several releases since then are now as open source as anything else in the world. And if not, then they will be soon - BSL allows a maximum 5 year delay.
- kragen 2y agothat may be (i haven't read the license) but i'm not persuaded it's relevant if nobody forked it five years ago, they probably aren't going to fork it now if somebody did fork it five years ago, they probably aren't going to try to merge in new source code drops as they convert to open source
- cvwright 2y agoThen why do you care? If nobody is going to fork it anyway, what’s the benefit of being open source from the beginning?
- kragen 2y agoi don't care that much because i don't use it, and evidently not much of anybody else does either, or there would have been a popular fork. i'm just saying that this is probably not a good time to expect one to pop up