Comment by eclark

I work on a startup where the entire self-hosted SaaS is permissively licensed.

https://github.com/batteries-included/batteries-included https://www.batteriesincl.com/ https://www.batteriesincl.com/LICENSE-1.0

I started the company because I wanted to give the infrastructure team that FAANG companies have to smaller enterprises. Most of the best infrastructure is open source but too complicated to use or maintain. So we've built a full platform that will run on any Kubernetes cluster, giving a company a push-button infrastructure with everything built on open source. So you get Heroku with single sign-on and no CLI needed. Or you get a full RAG stack with model hosting on your EKS cluster.

Since most of the services and projects we're building on top of are open source, we wanted to give the code to the world while being sustainable in the long term as a team. I had also been a part of Cloudera, and I had seen the havoc that open core had on the long-term success of Hadoop. So, I wanted something different for licensing. We ended up with a license that somewhat resembles the FSL but fixes its major (in my opinion) problem. We don't use the competing use clause instead opting for a total install size requirement.

I'm happy to chat with anyone about this, my email is in my profile. Good Luck nd I hope it works for you.