BUSL-1.1 is an interesting approach but is hampered by the variables it allows for:
- additional use grant
- change date
- change license
The first of these is especially wide open, resulting in wildly different meanings for different implementations such as MariaDB, Sentry, and HashiCorp. This makes every BSL/BUSL unique, which means that compliance departments have to individually review each implementation, greatly slowing adoption.
Let's write a new license that takes the best of BUSL-1.1, in particular the "delayed open source publishing" approach, and tightens it up so that it can be something compliance departments can work with more easily.
Draft website: fsl.software
Draft license: Google Doc
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