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> Two years ago, Facebook open-sourced Zstandard v1.0... Bullshit, Zstd was open-source from the very beginning, they just hired Yann and moved the project und

> Two years ago, Facebook open-sourced Zstandard v1.0... Bullshit, Zstd was open-source from the very beginning, they just hired Yann and moved the project under facebook org. How do I know? I have written the JVM bindings [1] since v0.1 that are now used by Spark, Kafka, etc. EDIT: Actually, my initial bindings were against v0.0.2 [2] Kudos to FB for hiring him and helping Zstd getting production ready. This is just a PR false claim. [1] https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni [2] https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni/commit/3dfe760cbb8cc46da3268af6aa73dce6014298ef https://github.com/luben/zstd-jni/commit/3dfe760cbb8cc46da32...

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hnbroseph 8y ago
on the github releases page, 1.0 mentions licensing changes of some sort. it also has pre-1.0 stuff as well.
- karavelov 8y ago
  Previously the license was BSD (as my commit above shows). v1.0 moved it to BSD+GPL2+Patent clause that is not more open-source than just BSD. After concerns from the community the patent clause was dropped, a little bit after React.
felixhandte 8y ago
Given that it was Yann himself who wrote that sentence, I think that's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation. Maybe a better wording would have been "Two years ago, we released Zstandard v1.0, an open source ...". But I don't think we anticipated anyone would read that much into it.
- karavelov 8y ago
  Yes, may be I read it the wrong way. I later noticed the authors. BTW, thank you for your part at making it the best compression library for wide variaty of cases.
  - felixhandte 8y ago
    Thank you for helping build an ecosystem around Zstd!
- jedisct1 8y ago
  Blog posts from companies are always reviewed by the marketing team, that frequently changes what the author initially wrote, or adds random stuff to make it sound more like a company effort.
  - mikorym 8y ago
    This also seemed to me like one of those "team effort", "good job, guys" surreptitious edits.

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hnbroseph 8y ago

on the github releases page, 1.0 mentions licensing changes of some sort. it also has pre-1.0 stuff as well.

karavelov 8y ago
Previously the license was BSD (as my commit above shows). v1.0 moved it to BSD+GPL2+Patent clause that is not more open-source than just BSD. After concerns from the community the patent clause was dropped, a little bit after React.

felixhandte 8y ago

Given that it was Yann himself who wrote that sentence, I think that's a needlessly uncharitable interpretation. Maybe a better wording would have been "Two years ago, we released Zstandard v1.0, an open source ...". But I don't think we anticipated anyone would read that much into it.

karavelov 8y ago
Yes, may be I read it the wrong way. I later noticed the authors. BTW, thank you for your part at making it the best compression library for wide variaty of cases.
- felixhandte 8y ago
  Thank you for helping build an ecosystem around Zstd!
jedisct1 8y ago
Blog posts from companies are always reviewed by the marketing team, that frequently changes what the author initially wrote, or adds random stuff to make it sound more like a company effort.
- mikorym 8y ago
  This also seemed to me like one of those "team effort", "good job, guys" surreptitious edits.