chore: License update (#2767)

* chore: License update

Fixes #2758

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Signed-off-by: Roman Gershman <roman@dragonflydb.io>
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Thanks for your interest in contributing to Dragonfly™. By contributing to this project
in any way form or media you grant DragonflyDB Ltd. and its affiliates a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, free of charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license to use,
modify, make available, reproduce, make derivatives, publicly display and perform, sublicense, sell, and distribute your contributions and any derivatives thereof as part of Dragonfly™.
You represent that You are legally entitled to grant the above license. You acknowledge that Attos currently distributes Dragonfly™ under the BSL license, and agree that your contribution may be distributed under BSL as part of Dragonfly™. You also represent that your contributions are your original work and that neither the content contributed, nor making the contribution to Dragonfly™ violates any third party rights. If you are making this contribution while being engaged by any other company or entity, please make sure you have the necessary permissions required to do so.
You represent that You are legally entitled to grant the above license. You acknowledge that DragonflyDB currently distributes Dragonfly™ under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL-1.1) license, and agree that your contribution may be distributed under BSL-1.1 as part of Dragonfly™. You also represent that your contributions are your original work and that neither the content contributed, nor making the contribution to Dragonfly™ violates any third party rights. If you are making this contribution while being engaged by any other company or entity, please make sure you have the necessary permissions required to do so.

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Dragonfly Business Source License 1.1
# Dragonfly Business Source License 1.1
<u>License</u>: BSL 1.1
<u>License</u>: Business Source License 1.1 [BSL 1.1](https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html)
<u>Licensor</u>: DragonflyDB, Ltd.
<u>Licensed Work</u>: Dragonfly including the software components, or any portion of them, and any modification.
<u>Change Date</u>: March 15, 2028
<u>Change Date</u>: September 1, 2028
<u>Change License</u>: [Apache License, Version
2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), as published by the
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Licensed Work. The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above,
permitting limited production use.
Effective on the Change Date, or the fifth anniversary of the first
Effective on the Change Date, or the forth anniversary of the first
publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed
Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby
grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights

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## What is the license model of Dragonfly? Is it an open source?
Dragonfly is released under [BSL 1.1](../LICENSE.md) (Business Source License).
BSL is considered to be "source available" license and it's not strictly open-source license.
We believe that a BSL license is more permissive than licenses like AGPL, and it will allow us to
BSL 1.1 is considered to be "source available" license and it's not strictly open-source license.
We believe that a [BSL 1.1](https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html) license is more permissive
than licenses like AGPL, and it will allow us to
provide a competitive commercial service using our technology. In general terms,
it means that Dragonfly's code is free to use and free to change as long as you do not sell services directly related to
Dragonfly or in-memory datastores.