FSL and BSL belong on any list of false-promise licenses:

• https://fsl.software/
• https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/#whatis

They are not open source. They are restrictive source-available licenses dressed up with “open” language.

Reading the code is not enough. If users cannot freely run, use, or build on the software because of field-of-use or competition restrictions, the software is not open source.

Marketing it as “open source” or even putting “open” in your name is misleading twice: first in the license, then in the messaging.

#opensource #fauxopensource #license

The vendor "threatening" to move the #CNCF 's Slack workspace off the free tier and then later withdrawing that was one of the best marketing stunts I've ever seen.

Or at least until that point I was entirely unaware that that vendor was sponsoring this.

Of course, the CNCF & #LinuxFoundation being beholden to a proprietary infrastructure platform where something like this can happen is just completely bonkers, but par for the course.

#OpenSource #FauxOpenSource