Open Source Licensing: Use Versus Abuse

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Covers concrete license switches and their effects: MongoDB moves to SSPL and restricts contribution model, Elastic shifts from Apache to the Elastic License to block hosted forks, Redis and HashiCorp relicense to business‑source patterns to protect cloud revenue while risking contributor churn. Lists consequences—reduced adoption, legal uncertainty, ecosystem fragmentation and higher maintenance costs—and notes there is no single auto‑solver for final artifact licensing though SBOM/SPDX inventories help and BSL/USL variants are becoming common.

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1. 0:00Open source licensing intro
2. 1:45Fairness in licensing changes
3. 5:18MongoDB’s SSPL shift
4. 8:07Elastic’s license change
5. 10:22HashiCorp’s license impact
6. 13:22Public domain vs proprietary
7. 16:12Permissive licenses
8. 19:28Copyleft licenses and GPL
9. 21:19Business Source License
10. 22:23Key licensing terms
11. 24:55Docker licensing issues
12. 27:26Security and compliance
13. 28:11Q&A

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