Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
I'm not surprised with this, seeing their aggressive push to cloud service. I'd say this is the route of popular OSS projects that became SaaS services:<p>1. Fork something Apache-licensed.<p>2. Build a community with "awesome" buzz.<p>3. Start a company, promising bells, and whistles.<p>4. Hire more and more people because bugs are piling up.<p>5. Now we need VC to fund all of that.<p>6. VCs are in charge now; they require "growth" and more paying customers.<p>7. Start using dark patterns. On the download page, hide the actual package download, redirect users to paying cloud or paying software version.<p>8. More frequent releases, more drastic redesigns, and changes. VCs need to see where the money goes.<p>9. VCs are still not happy. The company is spending more and more... relicense everything and force users to pay for the product.<p>Mongo, Elastic, now Grafana... TBH I don't have a problem with *GPL, but let's be honest: they are luring users and companies with permissive licenses, promising "forever" stupidities, then suddenly and silently change the rules. The funniest thing is that most of these projects started on something with apache license...