--- title: Bear is now source-available | daily.dev description: Bear, a blogging platform, has changed its license from MIT to the Elastic License to prevent competitors from creating hosted services using its code. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bear-is-now-source-available-e0ribymis twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bear is now source-available | daily.dev og:description: Bear, a blogging platform, has changed its license from MIT to the Elastic License to prevent competitors from creating hosted services using its code. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bear-is-now-source-available-e0ribymis og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E0rIbymis.png og:image:alt: Bear is now source-available og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bear is now source-available **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 43 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Bear, a blogging platform, has changed its license from MIT to the Elastic License to prevent competitors from creating hosted services using its code. The creator explains this decision was driven by repeated instances of people forking the project to launch competing services, which threatened the platform's sustainability. The new license maintains most open-source freedoms while restricting commercial hosting, following a trend among other projects facing similar challenges in the AI-powered development era. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@akkitto** · 3 upvotes > The reasons are valid, but the solution still sux. Moving away from open source for an open source product is a bad move. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#licensing](https://daily.dev/tags/licensing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/bear-is-now-source-available-e0ribymis) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Bear is now source-available","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bear-is-now-source-available-e0ribymis","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/bear-is-now-source-available-e0ribymis"},"datePublished":"2025-09-01T17:19:30.148Z","dateModified":"2025-09-01T17:19:50.061Z","description":"Bear, a blogging platform, has changed its license from MIT to the Elastic License to prevent competitors from creating hosted services using its code. 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