[stackskipton]

>Would love to know if this is in contract/writing somewhere as part of the acquisition.

Cloudflare would be insane to allow that provision in the contract or acquisition documents.

So I would take that promise as "will stay open source, blah blah blah, for now...."

[borski]

Dropbox did it for Zulip.

It entirely depends on how much the seller cared to ensure continuity. It’s not like VoidZero didn’t have plenty of leverage; they weren’t a dying open source project.

[throw14082020]

Dropbox spun out Zulip because it was a failed project they were going to shut down.

This is completely different?

[borski]

Dropbox never had any intention of running Zulip. But the team wanted Zulip to continue existing, so they worked that into the agreement with Dropbox.

That is my understanding.

[dbbk]

What would they benefit from taking it closed source? And how would that even work for a JavaScript toolchain?