Ask HN: What are your experiences with source-available licensing?

by mlmitchon 5/12/2020, 1:20:12 PM with 2 comments
  • by verdvermon 5/12/2020, 1:37:17 PM

    With source available, you can't use the words open source anymore. These licenses are starting to be rejected by the OSS license committee.

    IMHO, the companies using these want to have their cake and eat it too.

    Look at how Google has partnered with these companies that did this relicensing primarily because of Amazon. Look what Amazon did with elastic search

  • by verdvermon 5/12/2020, 1:34:55 PM

    Check out JJ's site https://coss.media and be sure to check out his interviews on YouTube, in particular the one with Sid from GitLab and another with Armory

    Too much amazing info to unpack here