Introducing the Functional Source License: Freedom without Free-riding

How you can run all of Sentry on your own server, without paying anything.

Sentry event forwarding and ingestion service. Contribute to getsentry/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.

Building businesses based on an Open Source project is like balancing a solar system. Like the sun is the center of our own little universe, powering life on the planets which revolve around it in a brittle, yet tremendously powerful astrophysical equilibrium; so is the relationship between a thriving open source project, with a community, one or more vendors and their commercially supported customers revolving around it, driven by astronomical aspirations.

The step function increase in AI's ability to generate code is looming over open source. What frontier models can do today is a warning shot, already enough to dissolve the legal scaffolding that makes open source enforceable. Historically...

Updates to the Bear license

The Functional Source License (FSL) is a source-available license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years.