Liquibase Misleadingly Advertised as Open Source Despite License Change to Functional Source License
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Summary
This article reports that Liquibase, a database schema management tool, has switched from an open source license to the Functional Source License, which is not recognized as open source. Despite this license change, the project's GitHub repository and README.md file continue to misleadingly advertise Liquibase as an open source project, creating confusion about the project's licensing status.
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This repository continues to misleadingly characterize Liquibase as an open source project, particularly in various places in the file README.md.
The README.md file and any similar project documentation will no longer mislead about the project's licensing status.
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