When I heard that Teleport is gonna change their license, I almost had a "aight, here we go again" moment after being fucked with by #Lightbend and #HashiCorp recently. Thankfully they switched to AGPL and not BSL (which I think stands for bullshit license).

The common tactics of companies "promoting #opensource" to gobble up a larger audience and then pull a bait and switch with the licensing seems to have caused me some serious PTSD.

https://goteleport.com/blog/teleport-oss-switches-to-agpl-v3/

#teleport #licensing

What a year 2023 has been so far!

So many license terms or terms of services changed when no one was expecting any of it:

#Lightbend (#Akka)
#Hashicorp (#Terraform, #Vault, #Vagrant, ...)
#Unity
#Reddit
#Xitter (#Twitter)
#Oracle (#OracleJDK)

And a bunch of others that I don't remember now.

It was my wake-up call, indeed.

The best thing for me has been joining #Mastodon and #Lemmy and away from those not open source projects.

#FOSS #LiberateYourTechnologyStack #VendorLockIn

Another thing that bothers me about #Akka's migration to a proprietary license is that the library version upgrades are MINOR.

So, for example, you see there's an upgrade of `akka-persistence-jdbc` from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0. What could possibly go wrong in such an upgrade, except for the project being now in breach of the license, and the company open to being extorted.

I'm sympathetic to #Lightbend's needs to survive as a company, but this couldn't have been handled worse.

Hi there! Been on the fediverse since 2018 but time for an #introduction update:

As #software developer from #Deventer, the #Netherlands I love #opensource, @nixos_org and @reproducible_builds , maintain #tiling #x11 wm @notion and helped organize @mch2022camp. I'm active at @hack42 and volunteer at Museum @EICAS.

Job: ex-#akka team at #lightbend, now self-employed and available for contracts on FLOSS things next to my part-time engagement as #Security Response Program Manager for #Apache .