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When Open Source Isn’t: How OpenRewrite Lost Its Way

Moderne quietly relicensed community-contributed OpenRewrite code from Apache 2.0 to a proprietary license, abandoning its open source commitments. This decision risks legal exposure, undermines community trust, and sets a dangerous precedent for OSS stewardship.On December 26th 2024, I opened GitHub and discovered that openrewrite/rewrite-java-security — a repository I had spent the better part of two years building recipes for — had been moved, made closed source, relicensed, and made propriet...

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