A list of software companies that started as "true" open-source but then switched to a more restrictive commercial license.
| Date changed | Product | Description | License before | License after | OSS Alternative(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-10 | Terraform | Infrastructure as Code | MPL 2.0 | BSL | Digger |
| 2021-03-26 | CouchBase | NoSQL Database | Apache 2.0 | BSL 1.1 | CouchDB |
| 2021-01-25 | ElasticSearch | Distributed, RESTful search | Apache 2.0 | SSPL | OpenSearch |
| 2019-06-4 | CockroachDB | Distributed SQL database | Apache 2.0 | BSL | ? |
| 2018-08-16 | MongoDB | Document database | AGPL | SSPL | FerretDb |