Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datadog, NewRelic)

Re:Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datado... by ryanrussell on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:54AM (#35654700)

Can we please not call this open source if it's not?

The tool may be great, but the title leaves me skeptical of anything else.

From: https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/blob/master/LICENSE

Business Source License 1.1

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Licensor: Uptrace Licensed Work: Uptrace The Licensed Work is (c) 2021 Uptrace Additional Use Grant: You may make use of the Licensed Work, provided that you may not use the Licensed Work for a Tracing and Metrics Service.

                      A "Tracing and Metrics Service" is a commercial offering
                      that allows third parties (other than your employees and
                      contractors) to access the functionality of the
                      Licensed Work so that such third parties directly benefit
                      from the tracing and metrics of the Licensed Work.

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Re:Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datado... by whalesalad on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:25AM (#35655165)

the source is right there in the open. licensing is a different story.

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Re:Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datado... by yellowapple on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:41PM (#35657349)

"Open-source" has a very specific definition which the BSL does not satisfy.

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Re:Show HN: Uptrace – open-source APM (alternative to Datado... by devidark on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:54AM (#35812115)

How then we should call it instead, if the source code is openly available?

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