[candiddevmike]

The 2-year delay applies to all of the codebase in my experience, not just the proprietary features. Users potentially have to delay security fixes for 2 years to avoid copying non-OSS code.

Fair source is a poison pill masquerading as OSS-friendly, just like BSL and friends. It's not useful in practice, and I don't think there are any examples of folks successfully using/forking BSL/fair-source code that is now OSS. That's by design.

[ezekg]

I think you're missing my main point: the only users who should need the OSS version would be those competing, because FSS offers the same freedoms as OSS to users who aren't competing. I don't see how this is a poison-pill, or how it's masquerading as anything malicious. I think it's pretty honest i.r.t. intent.

Re: forking FSS. Check out what Oxide is doing with CockroachDB -- there's your BUSL example.