Business Source License
A software licensing model originally introduced by MariaDB in 2016, occupying a position between fully open-source and fully proprietary. Source code is publicly viewable, but certain commercial uses are restricted during a defined time window; after that window expires, the license automatically converts to a permissive license such as Apache 2.0.
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The core design of BSL is that source code is publicly viewable but restricted for certain commercial uses within a time window, after which it automatically converts to a permissive license such as Apache 2.0.
BSL has been adopted by infrastructure projects such as HashiCorp (Terraform), Sentry, and CockroachDB.
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The core design of BSL is that source code is publicly viewable but restricted for certain commercial uses within a time window, after which it automatically converts to a permissive license such as Apache 2.0.
50%UnverifiedBSL has been adopted by infrastructure projects such as HashiCorp (Terraform), Sentry, and CockroachDB.
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