[troymc]

The license is the "Business Source License 1.1" [1].

The Business Source License (BSL) 1.1 is a software license created by MariaDB Corporation. It's designed as a middle ground between fully open-source licenses and traditional proprietary software licenses. It's kind of neat because it's a parameteric license, in that you can change some parameters while leaving the text of the license unchanged.

For codon, the "Change Date" is 2028-03-01 and the "Change License" is "Apache License, Version 2.0", meaning that the license will change to Apache2 in March of 2028. Until then, I guess you need to make a deal with Exaloop to use codon in production.

[1] https://github.com/exaloop/codon?tab=License-1-ov-file#readm...

[axit]

From what I've seen is the "Change Date" is usually updated so you always have a few years older software as Apache License and the latest software as BSL

[actionfromafar]

Just to make it clear - the cutoff date on previously released software remains the same. So if you download it now and wait a few years, your software will have matured into its final form, the Apache 2 license.

[troymc]

That make sense. Thanks for clarifying.