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Hi! Netmaker here. At the time of this writing this is true, but we're making some licensing changes this sprint, which I think will make people very happy. We started with SSPL just because it's much easier to go from more restrictive to less restrictive, as opposed to the alternative.

However, several months ago we moved all of the client-side code to Apache-2.0, and are about to make the server-side code FOSS-compatible.

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IANAL. I'm afraid you have it the other way around. It is easier to switch from permissive licenses (MIT / 3BSD) to compatible restrictive license (MPL / xGPL) than vice versa (xGPL to MPL / MIT) without a CLA.

Glad you're going Apache, though.

We do have a CLA, and put it in place for this very reason. It is more complex legally, but I meant more in terms of the community. Better to make people happy by going less restrictive over time then to start out with Apache and switch to something more restrictive and upset a bunch of people.

That's awesome! Glad it's a priority.

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