Treeverse announced that the lakeFS Community edition moves from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License 1.1 starting with v1.87.0, while every earlier release stays Apache 2.0 permanently and the DVC project it acquired keeps its Apache 2.0 license unchanged. Under the BSL the code stays public and may be run unmodified in production internally at any scale, but hosting or reselling lakeFS and running modified builds in production are no longer allowed, and each release converts back to Apache 2.0 four years after it ships. Treeverse, which sells a separately licensed lakeFS Enterprise, says the change protects the commercial product that funds development and that it will lower the entry point for Enterprise.
lakeFS Community Edition moves from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License
Treeverse announced that the lakeFS Community edition moves from Apache 2.0 to the Business Source License 1.1 starting with v1.87.0, while every earlier release stays Apache 2.0 permanently and the DVC project it acquired keeps its Apache 2.0 license unchanged. Under the BSL the code stays public and may be run unmodified in production internally at any scale, but hosting or reselling lakeFS and running modified builds in production are no longer allowed, and each release converts back to Apache 2.0 four years after it ships. Treeverse, which sells a separately licensed lakeFS Enterprise, says the change protects the commercial product that funds development and that it will lower the entry point for Enterprise.
Source: Lakefs