Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.

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[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The GPL is a fair play license as it offers everyone the same opportunities to use the software either for commercial purposes or otherwise. This license is a grants one party substantial rights over others, thus missing the main point of free software: free as in freedom, not free as in beer. That is also why free software organizations like the OSI won't accept licenses like this as "open".

[–] Paragone@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and if you consider that "economic barrier to entry" can make any bigger company, who is able to scoop a startup's code & sell the use of it, can extinguish the startup who created the code ...

then, yes, there are definitely situations where protection-against-competitors, some of whom have DEEP pockets, could be an actual requirement, for opensourcing one's code.

"Coopetition" Bill Gates coined, where you "cooperate" with your competitors, but, being Microsoft, you do it so you can snuff them, soon.

I can definitely see why a company would want to be able to allow limited use of their code, globally, but to legally-prohibit using it to destroy them.

[–] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, you can do all of that, fine by me. What you should not do is take that proprietary construct, slap the term "freedom" on in and try to muddy the waters of the FOSS licensing landscape neven further for your own gain.