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by stuff4ben 2233 days ago
Maybe I've been living under a rock, but this is the first I've heard of the Business Source License (BSL). https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs.htm... So after it converts to Apache 2.0 licensing, how does that affect redistribution of CockroachDB if I include it in my commercial applications?
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First for me too. I like the idea of a time limited conversion to Apache. Companies w easily AWS’d apps need some leverage and having older versions being the only open source ones makes sense. I would prefer a non commercial source available license as well or open core but this doesn’t seem too unreasonable.