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Can Open Source Projects Exit Foundations?
Last month, Synadia threatened to pull NATS from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), moving from the Apache 2.0 license to a non-open source license. While the dispute lasted only a few days, with both Synadia and CNCF agreeing that the project remains in the open source ecosystem, the dispute left many concerned about the long-term availability and support of open source projects.
Foundation-backed open source software has traditionally offered greater stability than corporate-owned projects, making NATS' potential departure from CNCF a significant exception. Between the simmering antagonism towards foundations at scale, the direct attacks on the CNCF specifically and the revelations about NATS’ performance and Synadia’s alleged behaviors, it was not a great week for open source. Seven years after joining the CNCF, NATS has yet to achieve "graduated" status and continues to operate under the "incubating" designation, one of the factors that contributed to the dispute.
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