Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL

10•CubsFan1060•1mo ago

I am not sure if this is part of the Bitnami Helm Chart Fiasco, but they seem to be changing open source projects from Apache to BSL.

Was looking at chart-syncer, and found: https://github.com/bitnami/charts-syncer/issues/307

And it depends on some tooling from VMware, which has the same notice: https://github.com/vmware-labs/distribution-tooling-for-helm/issues/132

Not that I'm surprised, just stumbled across this.

Comments

CubsFan1060•1mo ago

I'm no lawyer, but this part

"You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under Broadcom’s copyrights to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software in source code or binary form for use in connection with Broadcom products."

Feels like it's saying you're only allowed to use it in the future if you use it in relation to some Broadcom product.

bigfatkitten•1mo ago

One of my servers has a Broadcom NIC, so I guess I’m good to go.

markus_zhang•1mo ago

I’m pretty sure we all have some Broadcom chips.

bigfatkitten•1mo ago

Even if that’s only the LEDs on the front panel.

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