MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model

Looks like this should be a link to this 2016 article:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-...

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12325276

This is indeed a fascinating license, but most large corp legal teams do all they can to avoid anything with GPL ties in fear of legal issues forcing them to open proprietary code by proximity of GPL code used. Perceived risk aversion. This is short sighted.

BSL on the other hand could give large corps assurance that new technology from startups is safe to invest in, because if the startup goes away, (large % do) the code becomes open source as per this specific BSL.

This does not seem to address the case where someone chooses to simply not update a version of the BSL licensed code and its license expires while new versions maintain the BSL and extend the expiration.

It seems the licensing mechanism needs to use a blockchain type validation mechanism to stay current, transparent and accountable.

Working link:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/mysql-founder-tries-a-new-...

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