Synadia is attempting to exit the CNCF and “claw back” their OSS asset contributions on the NATS project to re-release under a non-OSS license. This is a decidedly bad look and I hope their legal saber-rattling fails. OSS will survive, but commercially-backed OSS is dying.
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/
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Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
When a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…
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Brian Sletten