Can't believe I missed this Redis change. I know that one path for open source is to build a company around it, but it seems that so many of the big players that have done that do it for the early clout and move to a closed license later on.<p>After doing some quick reading on the SSPL, I actually don't hate it though. It seems to be completely open for those who use it themselves, but prevents the cloud providers from capitalizing on hosting your software as a product. Not truly open, but I think this is probably an okay middle ground if you want open source software from a business that's developing and selling products around that software.
It'd be interesting to see a more exhaustive list, and see if that list retains the pattern of more things being closed off after interest rates rose in 2022. Suddenly "you can do whatever you want with it, we love the developer community!" idealism is replaced with "my VC will literally harvest my organs if we don't relicense this and start turning a profit." Sometimes it doesn't even make sense for it to happen.
How do they get away with relicensing GPL code?<p>My understanding is that you can relicense code for which you own the copywright, but if you have any other contributors, those contributions are still under GPL. So, you'd have to either get their permission to relicense or revert all their changes and subsequent derivatives.
I'm surprised LiveJournal was open source. Used it so much as a edgy teenager.<p>I used to host such scripts on my 233mhz pentium 2 that my parents allowed me to have in my bedroom.<p>Exploit ridden PHPNuke anyone?
Here is a very useful collection of 3D APIs: <a href="https://products.fileformat.com/3d/" rel="nofollow">https://products.fileformat.com/3d/</a>
It allows developers to Read, Write, Convert & Manipulate 3D Documents via .NET, Java, JavaScript & C++ and more. Most of them are free and can be used with ease.
I used Simple apps from fdroid. They were sold to zippoapps quite nasty company. It was forked. We have fossify suitr now, but it left a bad taste that something like that has been done.