Group: Software/research/ForksAgainstNonFreeReapropriation
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Introduction
Sometimes some software under free licenses change to nonfree licenses.
This is possible either because these projects are under weak free software licenses (like the MIT or Apache 2.0 licenses) or because an entity (usually a company) owns all the copyright of the project and thus can change the license of subsequent version of that software. See Toward Copyleft Equality for All for more details on the business model and issues behind that.
Since they can't change the versions that have already been published, sometimes these projects are forked with the explicit purpose of remaining free software.
Forks
| Original software | Last free versions | Free software fork(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Boundary | ||
| Consul | ||
| Elasticsearch | OpenSearch | |
| Kibana | OpenSearch Dashboards | |
| MongoDB | ||
| Nomad | ||
| Packer | ||
| Sentinel | ||
| Serf | ||
| Terraform | ||
| Vagrant | Vagrunt | |
| Vault | ||
| Waypoint |
