Synadia Attempts to Reclaim NATS Back from CNCF
a year ago
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- Synadia is attempting to relicense NATS under the Business Source License (BSL) after donating it to CNCF in 2018.
- CNCF claims over 700 organizations have contributed to NATS, while Synadia asserts it funded 97% of the server contributions.
- Synadia is demanding control over the nats.io domain and GitHub organization, which CNCF has managed for seven years.
- CNCF argues Synadia's actions undermine open source principles and has filed to cancel Synadia's NATS trademark registrations.
- The dispute may set a precedent for open source governance, with CNCF vowing to continue supporting NATS as an Apache-2.0 licensed project.
- Legal proceedings over trademarks and project assets are ongoing, with the open source community closely watching the outcome.