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The Complexity of Business Source License (BUSL) Transformation
[LWN subscriber-only content] The Business Source License (BUSL) is a source-available license that "converts" to an open-source license after a period of time. In theory, this means that a few years after a version of a product is released under the BUSL, it becomes open source and is fair game for Linux distributions to package along with regular open-source projects.
In theory, this means that a few years after a version of a product is released under the BUSL, it becomes open source and is fair game for Linux distributions to package along with regular open-source projects. With that information, Berrangé said that the company could take steps to make it simple by updating the branch for the old version and replacing the license and file headers with GPL instead of BUSL. Finally, the company should release an updated tarball with appropriate bug fixes to make the licensing entirely unambiguous, " and thus [trivially] accepted by any distro maintainers".
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