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by mej10 845 days ago
Can someone help me understand the licensing of this?

https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV/blob/main/LICENSE

It was MIT licensed up until 2022 where it was changed to what it is now, where they say that it will become MIT again 4 years after release... but is that from when the license was changed or the first release of the software in GitHub?
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rch 845 days ago
IANL but I've taken it to mean that releases acquired under the original license would continue to be governed by those terms.

I'm liking this new approach better than e.g. perpetual AGPL though, as it provides incentives for businesses to acquire commercial rights while avoiding any dead end agreements that outlive the startup entity.

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skadamat 845 days ago
Hey there, we wrote an in-depth post on the BSL license and why we switched to it: https://datacebo.com/blog/sdv-bsl-license/

BSL is an _eventual_ open source license. 4 years after every version release, that code now transitions to being MIT licensed. SDV's roots are in academic science (MIT), so we wanted to make sure researchers could still use the toolkit for their work.

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