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Let's not forget about Lightbend in this with Akka.

What ended up happened there? Has Pekko gained momentum? If so, it would be helpful to add it to a list of these: part of the problem is that moving to the B(U)SL is viewed as having no risk -- when it fact, it is risking everything (e.g., Sun/Oracle and Hudson/Jenkins).

Lightbend put the cutoff on version 2.7, claims no more updates. They pushed the actual enforcement back 1 year. We'll see this fall about when this hits.

Pekko is playing catchup right now. Also, they're a bit of a small crowd. (As in .. under lightbend Akka has developed a crowd.. but Pekko has to struggle to form now)

Context: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-licen...

TL;DR: In September 2022, Lightbend changed Akka's license from Apache 2.0 to BSL 1.1

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