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CockroachDB: The Distributed SQL Database That Went BSL and Then Private — The License Wave's Darkest Ending
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CockroachDB: The Distributed SQL Database That Went BSL and Then Private — The License Wave's Darkest Ending

CockroachDB began as an open-source distributed SQL database, moved to the Business Source License in 2019, and then in 2024 took the step no other major project in this wave took: it stopped publishing new source code at all. This deep dive covers the BSL, the Cockroach Community License, the move to private source, why no community fork gained traction, real costs, where your data actually lives, and an honest verdict for a sovereignty-minded operator.
2026-10-06 1 views
HashiCorp Vault: The Secrets Manager That Changed Its License and Spawned OpenBao — A Deep Dive Into the BSL Fork
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HashiCorp Vault: The Secrets Manager That Changed Its License and Spawned OpenBao — A Deep Dive Into the BSL Fork

Vault guarded the world's API keys under MPL 2.0 for years. In August 2023 HashiCorp flipped it to the Business Source License alongside Terraform, and IBM engineers forked the last open version into OpenBao. This deep dive covers the relicensing, the fork, the drop-in migration, Nvidia and GitLab adoption, real self-hosting costs, where your secrets actually live, and an honest verdict for a sovereignty-minded operator.
2026-10-06 1 views