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Broadcom Changing Licensing to BSL
7 points by CubsFan1060 16 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
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.



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.


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

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

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



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