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> Every major technological startup turned away from BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses due to inability to compete with cloud providers without technological edge. No, t
by benatkin 4y ago
> Every major technological startup turned away from BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses due to inability to compete with cloud providers without technological edge.
No, there are plenty that still use permissive licenses.
GitLab uses MIT and a custom license for EE: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/licensing.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/licensing.html
Deno uses an MIT license and has some secret sauce that is currently just in hosted services AFAIK: https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/main/LICENSE.md https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/main/LICENSE.md
PlanetScale has hosted services and an open source tool called Vitess which is Apache licensed: https://planetscale.com/ https://planetscale.com/ https://github.com/vitessio/vitess https://github.com/vitessio/vitess
Finally Redis has a BSD licensed core, a source available license for additional modules, and a closed source license for enterprise. https://redis.com/legal/licenses/ https://redis.com/legal/licenses/
- romange 4y agoRedis has a BSD license because it was written by antirez who did not intend to make it a commercial enterprise. Today its too late to change and wont help Redis Inc to protect their ip. We looked at elastic, mongodb, cocroach labs, mariadb, redpanda, atlassian, grafana labs , scylladb. The last two are agpl but the motivation is the same: to protect themselves.