[Fedora-legal-list] Review and Guidance needed - licenses transforming based on time

Hello,

I'd like a review of 'MariaDB Business Source License (BSL)'. Here is a specific instance of the license: https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/blob/24.02/licenses/LICENSE2... Here is FAQ about it: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/

TL;DR: the license says it's non-free, but it becomes free (GPL in this case) after a specific time.

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Apart from this specific case, I'd like to hear your guidance in similar cases in general - whether they are mostly accepted or rather avoided (by Fedora), as more licenses with this idea exists, e.g.: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE.md

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Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat

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