Hey it's Ash (the maintainer being talked about in the blog). I'm not one for fork drama and I haven't had a chance to fully read the blog so I don't have a lot to say. However, this is a full fork of the entire codebase, which means plugin authors will need to choose one project or the other and are locked in, and is entirely unnecessary on both a technical and legal perspective.<p>If they'd instead chose to fork the plugins themselves (the only parts where the licenses changed, all except two are Apache V2) then all users can pick and choose which ones they include in their projects, and it doesn't fragment the ecosystem at all. Your plugins would compile in my project, and mine would compile in yours.<p>The part they're choosing to fork here, which will cause this rift in the community, is still MIT licensed: <a href="https://github.com/redpanda-data/benthos">https://github.com/redpanda-data/benthos</a>. If they simply chose to continue using this MIT part we can all live happily together in a utopian society fully saturated with plugged blobbery.<p>Edit: I'm bit a baby brained so I forgot that I'm literally streaming live in 30 minutes in order to explain all the changes in detail for those out of the loop: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nVdUuWZ80" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nVdUuWZ80</a>