Dotan Horovits #CNCFAmbassador<p>Here it goes again. Cockroach Labs is moving <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CockroachDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CockroachDB</span></a> to a fully proprietary license.<br>To be fair, they've already shifted away from <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> back in 2019, when they replaced Apache2 with Business Source License <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSL</span></a> for their Core.<br>(* just realized they've taken down the 2019 blog)</p><p>This joins the recent <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/relicensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relicensing</span></a> of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Redis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Redis</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Terraform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terraform</span></a> and other prominent <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> projects. Which brings us back to the fundamental question:<br>𝗜𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘅𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻?<br><a href="https://horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">horovits.medium.com/is-vendor-</span><span class="invisible">owned-open-source-an-oxymoron-b5486a4de1c6</span></a></p>