Sentry started life in 2008 as an unlicensed, 71-line Django plugin. The next year we began publishing it under BSD-3, and ten years later…

Sentry has moved to a new license for its products called Functional Source License, and explains in this article the story of the licensing for these products and why they throw BSL for FSL.

    • amigan@lemmy.dynatron.meEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      Yup. Just another greedy company trying to instill the warm and fuzzies in prospective customers and benefit from unpaid members of the public fixing their bugs with the “open source” branding.

    • satan@r.nfEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Good. Users aren’t the ones spending countless hours coding, debugging, and testing their apps. And they shouldn’t give a shit about internet keyboard warriors and their ideals.

      don’t like it? write your own code.