As I already wrote before, the whole copyright/copyleft matter is totally inadequate to modern times. That's the only sure thing now
As I already wrote before, the whole copyright/copyleft matter is totally inadequate to modern times. That's the only sure thing now
Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
https://tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/
#HackerNews #Relicensing #AI #AIRewriting #TechInnovation #SoftwareDevelopment
Another #opensource #database turns to the dark side.
#scylladb announced discontinuing its OSS edition (AGPL license), and #relicensing the Enterprise edition to a source-available (non #FOSS) one.
Remember folks: vendor-owned open source is an oxymoron.
https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6
William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant states that open source is sustainable under a single vendor as long as they "have clear economic incentives to keep doing what they're doing".
But he avoids the elephant in the room.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7261485884422668288/
The most exciting moment of Open Source Summit 2024 last month for me wasn't when I went on stage.
It was at the very first minutes of the conference, during the opening keynote,
when I saw my humble blog post "When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side" featured 🤩
It was surreal to see my personal blog quoted alongside The New York Times, WIRED and the European Commission's Joinup magazine 😍
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7249680992339193856/
#ossummit #opensource #FOSS #relicensing #devrel @linuxfoundation
Sentry is running a campaign for the new marketing term "fair source". Currently this boils down to their new Functional Source License (FSL).
So far there's not much traction: GitButler and four early stage startups.
What differentiation does this new category offer from source available?
And most importantly, it doesn't address the main concern:
When owned by a single vendor, project license is volatile. https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6
In case you were on summer holiday and missed it:
Last week #Elaticsearch was relicensed, again.
Three years after Elastic took it off open source.
I scribed a few notes about this move:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7236361455938265089/
#opensource #relicensing #elk #elkstack #kibana #agpl #foss