https://blog.mickeyzzc.tech/en/series/open-source--engineering-decisions-series/Recent content in Open Source & Engineering Decisions Series on Mi&Bee BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen蓝宝石的傻话Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0800https://blog.mickeyzzc.tech/en/posts/architecture/open-source-license-guide/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0800https://blog.mickeyzzc.tech/en/posts/architecture/open-source-license-guide/<p>In September 2017, React switched overnight from BSD+Patents to MIT. The reason: the Apache Software Foundation put React&rsquo;s license on its &ldquo;do not depend on&rdquo; list, and Automattic (WordPress&rsquo;s parent) immediately announced it would stop rewriting its UI on React. Facebook couldn&rsquo;t withstand the ecosystem pressure and folded. Seven years later, in March 2024, Redis moved its core from BSD 3-Clause to a dual RSALv2+SSPL license — within a week AWS, Google, and Oracle jointly forked Valkey to replace it.</p>https://blog.mickeyzzc.tech/en/posts/architecture/source-available-ai-license/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0800https://blog.mickeyzzc.tech/en/posts/architecture/source-available-ai-license/<p>In August 2023, HashiCorp moved Terraform, Vault, Consul, and all its core products from MPL 2.0 to BSL 1.1. The community erupted; a month later the Linux Foundation spearheaded a fork called OpenTofu. You&rsquo;d think the story ends there — but in April 2024 IBM announced a $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp, closing in February 2025, making HashiCorp a business unit under IBM&rsquo;s Red Hat. The license-changing OSS company didn&rsquo;t decline; it became an acquisition target.</p>