A community-maintained record of open source projects that changed their license. Browse it at rugpulls.dev.
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| Project | Company | Original License | New License | Date of Change | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iText | iText | MPL-1.0 | AGPL-3.0 | 2009/12/01 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IText#Licensing |
| Redis | Redis Labs | Apache-2.0 | Commons Clause | 2018/08/01 | https://redis.com/legal/licenses |
| MongoDB | MongoDB | AGPL-3.0 | SSPL | 2018/10/16 | https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-issues-new-server-side-public-license-for-mongodb-community-server |
| Confluent | Confluent | Apache-2.0 | Confluent Community License | 2018/12/14 | https://www.confluent.io/blog/license-changes-confluent-platform/ |
| TimescaleDB | Timescale | Apache-2.0 | Timescale License | 2018/12/19 | https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-are-building-an-open-source-business-a7701516a480/ |
| CockroachDB | Cockroach Labs | Apache-2.0 | BUSL | 2019/06/04 | https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/ |
| ElasticSearch | Elastic | Apache-2.0 | SSPL | 2021/01/19 | https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change |
| Couchbase | Couchbase | Apache-2.0 | BUSL | 2021/03/26 | https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-adopts-bsl-license/ |
| Grafana | Grafana | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 | 2021/04/20 | https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/ |
| Minio | Minio | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 | 2021/05/21 | https://blog.min.io/from-open-source-to-free-and-open-source-minio-is-now-fully-licensed-under-gnu-agplv3/ |
| Airbyte | Airbyte | MIT | Elastic License v2.0 | 2021/09/27 | https://airbyte.com/blog/a-new-license-to-future-proof-the-commoditization-of-data-integration |
| Redis | Redis Labs | AGPL-3.0 | SSPL | 2022/11/15 | https://redis.com/legal/licenses |
| Terraform,Vault,Consul | HashiCorp | MPL-2.0 | BUSL | 2023/08/10 | https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license |
| Akka | Lightbend | Apache-2.0 | BUSL | 2022/09/22 | https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-license-for-akka |
| ArangoDB | ArangoDB | Apache-2.0 | BUSL | 2024/02/23 | https://arangodb.com/2024/02/update-evolving-arangodbs-licensing-model-for-a-sustainable-future/ |