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

Re:Ask HN: What are your experiences with source-available l... by verdverm on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:37AM (#23153821)

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

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Re:Ask HN: What are your experiences with source-available l... by mlmitch on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:51AM (#23153958)

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

Is this something to worry about? I am more concerned with the actual effects on users than terminology. I'd love to hear otherwise though.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your experiences with source-available l... by verdverm on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:49AM (#23155330)

We're not doing these Faux Pas licenses and claiming open source. We want to actually be open source as we believe it is better for all in the long run.

Do you want to do open source or something else? Are you worrying about Amazon before you need to? Set up contributor agreements a certain way (like Google, not GitLab) and you can change it later once we know more about how it works out.

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