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Update (2023-11-14): Not long after publication of the post below about the so-called “Commons Clause”, Neo4j utilized that Clause to add a “further restriction” to the Affero General Public License, Version 3 (“AGPLv3”). When John Mark Suhy tried to remove it, as permitted and encouraged by AGPLv3 itself, Neo4j sued John Mark and his small company (PureThink). That case sadly resulted in multiple ill-informed judgments forbidding such removal. As SFC's Policy Fellow, I filed an expert report on the case — explaining my first-hand knowledge about the drafting of the relevant “further restriction” removal clause, but, alas, the Court has not changed its view. The case is, however, ongoing, so please watch SFC's website for updates.

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I noticed a recent uptick in activity on Twitter about open source Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), mostly negative.\nThe above comment is from a friend of mine who has been involved in open source longer than I have, and whose opinions I respect. On this issue, however, I have to disagree.\nThis is definitely not the first time CLAs have been in the news. The first time I remember even hearing about them concerned MySQL. The MySQL CLA required a contributor to sign over ownership of any contribution to the project, which many thought was fine when they were independent, but started to raise some concerns when they were acquired by Sun and then Oracle. I think this latest resurgence is the result of Elastic deciding to change their license from an open source one to something more “open source adjacent”. This has caused a number of people take exception to this (note: link contains strong language).\n

I am very happy to be able to share with the world what I have been working on since July last year: Grafana Mimir! Grafana Mimir is an open source, horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus. It’s a continuation of the Cortex project, but licensed under AGPL. Please see the launch post for the details!

Today I’m happy to announce a project I’ve been quietly working on for some time: Pinafore. Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon, which looks like this: Here are some of i…