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submitted 7 months ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.

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[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

FSL is better than strait proprietary and if a company had to choose between the two I hope they choose FSL. All that said it just doesn't feel like there is a real hope here for the eventual Open source fork here. It's just a fail safe for people still on legacy systems and even then 2 years of potentially no new updates ... Could be killer for security flaws. With tons of paradigm shifts between then too.

It almost needs a SLA that says if it isn't maintained to a certain level then it is also opensourced.

[-] ck_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I disagree. With licenses that are "straight proprietary", it's obviously whats going on. The FSL is proprietary but tries to gaslight you into thinking that maybe its kinda not. That's clearly worse because it relies on manipulation and can only ever be useful to someone acting in bad faith.

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