Re: hashicorp license change

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi!

On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 09:29:33AM +0900, Iku Iwasa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it OK to use "busl-1.1" as the value of LICENSE field for Business
> Source License 1.1, according to https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html?

We need to add busl-1.1 to pkgsrc/licenses/busl-1.1 first, but
otherwise that would be ok.

> As for MariaDB, the following site mentions MariaDB Community Server is
> GPLv2 and MariaDB MaxScale is BUSL.
> https://mariadb.com/products/community-server/

Thanks!
 Thomas


> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Iku
> 
> On 2023/08/19 22:18, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just a heads-up, hashicorp, the company behing terraform, consul,
> > packer, vault, vagrant, and a couple other software projects, changed
> > the license of some of its software from MPL to BSL (business source
> > license).
> >
> > Here's an article by The Register about it:
> >
> > https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorp_bsl_licence/
> >
> > and here's hashicorp's FAQ about the license change:
> >
> > https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#aug-10-announcement
> >
> > Please make sure to check and update the LICENSE variable when you
> > update any hashicorp software to a version after the license change.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Thomas
> >
> > P.S. If someone knows what The Register article means with the MariaDB
> > reference (which still seems to use (L)GPL and not BUSL, AFAICT),
> > please let me know.