Not true that it doesn’t allow production usage, it just doesn’t do it by default.
The intention is that it’s up to the one using the BUSL to specify to which degree production usage is allowed:
“The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above, permitting limited production use.”
Eg. Sentry allows all non-SaaS production deployments of their BUSL licensed code, which is pretty much the same goal as here, but with BUSL the code will be actually open source eventually whereas here it will stay in this extended AGPL-like license forever?
The intention is that it’s up to the one using the BUSL to specify to which degree production usage is allowed:
“The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above, permitting limited production use.”
Eg. Sentry allows all non-SaaS production deployments of their BUSL licensed code, which is pretty much the same goal as here, but with BUSL the code will be actually open source eventually whereas here it will stay in this extended AGPL-like license forever?