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I have trouble following the change in licensing from benthos to redpanda connect and think there should be additional documentation on this topic.

With 3d0f78d the licensing changed from MIT to a mix of Apache 2.0 and a Redpanda Community License (which unintuitively contains in parts enterprise licensing).

Source files of some connectors are now under a restrictive enterprise license, with no change in features (EDIT: and significant amounts of code original licensed under MIT).
These changes in licensing are not clearly stated.
It's also not clear if the total removal of MIT licensing was agreed upon with every contributor, or if it is assumed all contributions can be redistributed/relicensed without including any notice about the original (MIT) license.
EDIT: Per my understanding, MIT does allow redistribution under a more restrictive license, provided that the "copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software".

It is also not clear in which way Redpanda would move other parts of the software under the enterprise license.

I know the core engine is now located at https://github.com/redpanda-data/benthos, but this repo here still contains a large portion of the "old" codebase.

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