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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:07PM (#26881693)
> Anything not hard-copyleft (GPL, AGPL) or source-available (BSL etc.) is going to be embraced, extended, and SaaSified / paywalled. Eventually the open version might get abandoned since its authors will get tired of providing free labor to billion dollar cloud companies.

FreeBSD is 27 years old. Postgres is 24 years old. SQLite, which is placed in the public domain, is 20 years old.

You will forgive me not holding my breath.

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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by fader on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:37PM (#26882096)
I think that OSX co-opting BSD is a perfect example here, honestly.
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