What you can ship and what you must share: permissive versus copyleft mechanics, the linking question, why SaaS broke the GPL and created the AGPL, the relicensing wars of Elastic, Redis, MongoDB, and HashiCorp and the forks that answered them, source-available versus open source, CLAs versus DCOs, and a practical compliance checklist.
Licensing
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Open-Source Licensing, Actually Explained -
OpenTofu vs Terraform: The Fork One Year In The Terraform and OpenTofu fork, one year on — what HashiCorp's BSL relicensing actually changed, how the two tools have diverged since, and how to decide which one to standardize on for the next decade.
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FlexLM and RLM License Server Internals: Debugging Denials, Borrowing, and Building License-Aware Schedulers The internals of FlexLM and RLM license servers that gate every EDA flow — how checkout works, why denials happen, how license borrowing behaves, and how to build schedulers that respect a finite pool of expensive seats.