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Open Source License, Welcome to the Cloud Era
Preface Open source licenses have evolved from the original GPL to GPLv2 and GPLv3, along with Apache, MPL, AGPL, LGPL, etc. But a number of new licenses have emerged in recent years, causing some heated discussions in the community. These new licenses include BSL, SSPL, Elastic, and a special addition called Commons Clause. The community is mainly divided into two camps from the perspective of argument: Fundamentalism and Pragmatism. Fundamentalist followers believe that only those who comply with the 10 principles defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) established in 1998 and pass the OSI certification (get OSI-Certified) can be called open source licenses. Pragmatism, starting from the purpose of open source itself, believes that under the condition that the source code is open and the vast majority of community developers can use or contribute without being affected, there is no need to struggle with the literal definition, as long as it can be beneficial to the community. According to the OSI open source License rules, currently, MongoDB using SSPL, Elastic Search and Airbyte using Elastic License V2, CockroachDB using BSL, and Redis with Common Clause, all these famous open source software could not be called “open source software”. So...