Comment by jryan49 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jryan49 | Hacker News Reader

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From their FAQ [1]

I use Akka for an OSS project. What does this mean for my project?

    The license offers a customizable “Additional Use Grant” that grants production usage for other OSS projects including Play Framework.

    If you are running an OSS project using Akka, please contact us at akka-license@lightbend.com and we will do our best to continue to support your project

1. https://www.lightbend.com/akka/license-faq

Also after 3 years the BSL changes into apache

Thank you for referring to the Lightbend license FAQ. These use grants under the BSL are very limited - here the additional use grant for the Play Framework:

"If you develop an application using a version of Play Framework that utilizes binary versions of akka-streams and its dependencies, you may use such binary versions of akka-streams and its dependencies in the development of your application only as they are incorporated into Play Framework and solely to implement the functionality provided by Play Framework; provided that, they are only used in the following way: Connecting to a Play Framework websocket and/or Play Framework request/response bodies for server and play-ws client."

This won't really work because many projects based on the Play Framework use more Akka features than those granted.

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