[rnmkr]

> where these companies would be if their software was under non free license from the start.

Yep open source is used as a marketing. I doubt they'd gain much adoption if it started with BSL at first place.

[mdaniel]

> I doubt they'd gain much adoption if it started with BSL at first place

Adoption is one risk, https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/graphs/contributors is an entirely different risk

[ezekg]

Sentry, another BUSL licensed project, seems fine? https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/graphs/contributors