Gabriel Anhaia gives a rundown:
Something is breaking in open source. Not the code. The social contracts.
The open-source world isn’t collapsing from lack of funding or contributor burnout (though both are real). It’s fracturing because organizations that built empires on community-written software decided the original deal doesn’t work for them anymore. Forks are multiplying. Licenses are mutating. Lawyers are circling.
The volunteer maintainers who actually wrote most of this code? They’re stuck in the crossfire.
Read on for a variety of examples around sovereignty rules and some of the licensing shenanigans going on in major products. H/T Cristophe Pettus.