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Reading any software and taking inspiration from it is risky, because software patents inhibit the Progress of Science and useful Arts. Here's cockroachdb's ve
by brlewis 7y ago
Reading any software and taking inspiration from it is risky, because software patents inhibit the Progress of Science and useful Arts.
Here's cockroachdb's version of the BSL:
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/licenses/BSL.txt https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/license...
You may be right that this doesn't allow modification. I hope sentry words their Additional License Grant better.
> Consider yourself happy Torvalds didn't think this way. Or Guido.
Yes I'm generally happy when I get new stuff for free, but I don't expect that to always happen.
- grumpydba 7y ago> Yes I'm generally happy when I get new stuff for free, but I don't expect that to always happen. Sure. But when a product is advertised as open source, I expect it to be true.
- brlewis 7y agoOpen source never includes the guarantee that there will be future open source releases. If their new license won't work for you, it's as if it just stopped being maintained. Use and/or fork the most recent open source version.
- grumpydba 7y agoA paragraph of this announcement is literally titled "Commercializing Open-Source". This is a blatant lie.