CNCF guidelines for using dependencies with source available non-open-source licenses

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Do you maintain an open source CNCF project that uses a dependency with “source available” non-open source license (a.k.a. fauxpen source license)?

Here are the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) guidelines, in light of recent relicensing moves such as Terraform and Elasticsearch:

Note: this is an initial draft, following a mapping of the implications of the recent license changes to HashiCorp projects. You can review the mapping and chime in on this github issue:

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