Sidero Labs is acquired by Yardi and states Talos Linux stays open source under MPL-2.0

Sources: primary, discussion
Summary: Sidero Labs announced on its own blog, in a post dated 2026-09-14, that the company joins Yardi. The post states that Talos Linux remains open source under MPL-2.0, and describes Talos as a platform that tens of thousands of clusters now run on. The same post announces Talos Hypervisor, which extends Talos beyond Kubernetes into virtualization.
Why it matters: Talos Linux sits under the clusters of every team that adopted it, so the license terms and the maintenance roadmap after an acquisition are an infrastructure dependency rather than a corporate footnote.
Follow-up: Track whether the MPL-2.0 commitment holds across the next Talos Linux release cycle.