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Am I reading this right? Rethinkdb is now under apache 2? That's awesome news - such great software.

by divbit 10y ago

Philipp__ 10y ago
There were some interesting conversations on GitHub during past few months. In the end, everything is in it's place, I am really glad to see RethinkDB standing a chance on their own as an open source project!
crb 10y ago
"Transferring copyright to The Linux Foundation, relicensing RethinkDB under ASLv2." https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/b0ec8bc5a874d5241d8af1166d664083edc5f750 https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/b0ec8bc5a874d5...
chrisabrams 10y ago
Yes this is currently in the works; going from AGPL -> ASLv2 is not as simple as a Github PR, but we should hopefully resolve it in the next week or two.
- tshannon 10y ago
  That is absolutely fantastic. I feel much more confident about the future of rethinkdb now.
- deleted 10y ago
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mglukhovsky 10y ago
To add to that: one of the great consequences of this change is that a large amount of RethinkDB source code that was previously unavailable as open-source code (including some unreleased features for RethinkDB, copious amounts of artwork and content, and build / performance scripts) will now also be steadily open-sourced. We felt that it was too important to let the work we created have a life of its own and establish its own life in the open-source community. It's wonderful to see this finally happen.
- pmontra 10y ago
  Why that code couldn't be made available under the AGPL, maybe different and incompatible licenses?
  - mglukhovsky 10y ago
    Some of the code and content was heavily used internally, but we never invested time to properly package it for public consumption. We also briefly had a closed-source version of RethinkDB that has a few useful features for larger teams: we're excited to be able to merge these back into the project.

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Am I reading this right? Rethinkdb is now under apache 2? That's awesome news - such great software.

by divbit 10y ago

Am I reading this right? Rethinkdb is now under apache 2? That's awesome news - such great software.

Philipp__ 10y ago
There were some interesting conversations on GitHub during past few months. In the end, everything is in it's place, I am really glad to see RethinkDB standing a chance on their own as an open source project!
crb 10y ago
"Transferring copyright to The Linux Foundation, relicensing RethinkDB under ASLv2." https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/b0ec8bc5a874d5241d8af1166d664083edc5f750 https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/b0ec8bc5a874d5...
chrisabrams 10y ago
Yes this is currently in the works; going from AGPL -> ASLv2 is not as simple as a Github PR, but we should hopefully resolve it in the next week or two.
- tshannon 10y ago
  That is absolutely fantastic. I feel much more confident about the future of rethinkdb now.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
mglukhovsky 10y ago
To add to that: one of the great consequences of this change is that a large amount of RethinkDB source code that was previously unavailable as open-source code (including some unreleased features for RethinkDB, copious amounts of artwork and content, and build / performance scripts) will now also be steadily open-sourced. We felt that it was too important to let the work we created have a life of its own and establish its own life in the open-source community. It's wonderful to see this finally happen.
- pmontra 10y ago
  Why that code couldn't be made available under the AGPL, maybe different and incompatible licenses?
  - mglukhovsky 10y ago
    Some of the code and content was heavily used internally, but we never invested time to properly package it for public consumption. We also briefly had a closed-source version of RethinkDB that has a few useful features for larger teams: we're excited to be able to merge these back into the project.