[brlewis]

Reading any software and taking inspiration from it is risky, because software patents inhibit the Progress of Science and useful Arts.

Here's cockroachdb's version of the BSL:

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/license...

You may be right that this doesn't allow modification. I hope sentry words their Additional License Grant better.

> Consider yourself happy Torvalds didn't think this way. Or Guido.

Yes I'm generally happy when I get new stuff for free, but I don't expect that to always happen.

[grumpydba]

> Yes I'm generally happy when I get new stuff for free, but I don't expect that to always happen.

Sure. But when a product is advertised as open source, I expect it to be true.

[brlewis]

Open source never includes the guarantee that there will be future open source releases. If their new license won't work for you, it's as if it just stopped being maintained. Use and/or fork the most recent open source version.

[grumpydba]

A paragraph of this announcement is literally titled "Commercializing Open-Source". This is a blatant lie.