License Changes for Confluent Platform

Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by ensignavenger on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:30AM (#18682016)

At least in this case, they are being more clear about what they are doing and not claiming their new license is Open Source or trying to poison an existing Open Source license, the way some other companies are doing things.

I agree that it is always sad to see a company closing its (future) source code like this, but such is their perogative.

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Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by mindcrime on Friday December 14, 2018 @11:39AM (#18682109)

or trying to poison an existing Open Source license

Yes, kudos to Confluent for at least creating a new license, as opposed to adopting "Commons Clause + Apache" or something.

All of this said, even though I don't particularly like this "you can do everything except build a SaaS of this project" model, if people are going to do this, I hope that eventually things consolidate to where there's one de-facto standard "Shared Source - Non-SaaS" license.

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