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I was under the impression that rethink db was not open source (until after it “failed”). That’s not a reason for failure, of course, but I have mentioned befo
by supermatt 6y ago
I was under the impression that rethink db was not open source (until after it “failed”).
That’s not a reason for failure, of course, but I have mentioned before that we (as in developers) often only choose things with permissive licenses, often to the detriment of the products we “support” (see the recent elastic drama, where we blamed elastic being forked by Amazon for being too permissive!).
- williamstein 6y agoIt was open source from the start, but under AGPL which is a fairly restrictive open source license. I remember diving through the code trying to debug bugs in RethinkDB when using it in production long before they went out of business. See my blog post http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-must-relicense-now-what-is.html http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-must-relicens...
- supermatt 6y agoYeah, AGPL seems to be one of those licenses that aren’t popular here. I’ve never understood it myself - especially for something like a db which folks are generally less likely to modify. What would you say is the problem with AGPL? I was thinking of releasing a product under it myself.