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by wdella 816 days ago
> I was surprised while digging up the link that Gravatational is still releasing v13 and v14 updates under Apache 2, so maybe even Teleport will continue to have legs for those who cannot deploy AGPL stuff

Teleport puts out 3 major releases a year (every 4 months) and supports versions back to N-2. So the v13 will be updated until May (v16's release) and v14 until September-ish (v17's release). Using v14 and prior is not a viable strategy for AGPL averse companies in the long run... unless they want to fork.

After September 2024, the Teleport options that will get updates are:

1. Compiling Teleport yourself under the terms of the AGPL

2. Use the pre-compiled Community Edition under its new commercial license (<100 employees and <$10MM)

3. Purchase a license (or Teleport Cloud tenant) under enterprise terms

The recent Teleport licensing changes are designed to:

1. Push business users in category 1 and 2 into category 3 and

2. Preempt having Teleport's value resold by a big cloud player like the AWS Elasticsearch/OpenSearch kerfuffle a while back.

Source: I work at Teleport, and while I had no say in the license change, I did keep an ear out as I care about our open source stance. It is part of what brought me to the company.