Re:Remembering the LAN
by fxtentacle on Monday March 23, 2020 @02:57PM
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Yeah, I should have written something like "source code available for self-hosting".
The important point for me isn't really if this is true Open Source or not, but that I usually want (even paid is OK) access to source code so that I can fix things myself, if I have to.
This is the same license as CockroachDB and a bunch of other projects. It's used in cases where a company wants to avoid their product being put behind someone else's paywall ("SaaSification"). The AGPL isn't quite good enough and has issues.
It's not open source, at least not the current version. It's under their modified version of the Business Source License: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE....
This is, IMO, much better than the typical proprietary license, but it's still not open source, and the license itself says as much:
>The Business Source License (this document, or the "License") is not an Open Source license.