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My recollection is that the TS license simply has protection against using the TS code to compete with TS, ala Amazon RDS. While some people on HN feel that th
by doctor_eval 4y ago
My recollection is that the TS license simply has protection against using the TS code to compete with TS, ala Amazon RDS.
While some people on HN feel that this is an impurity they can’t live with, I personally think it’s a small price to pay to enable development of TS to continue. In my opinion, claiming that it’s closed source is somewhat dogmatic. Many open source licenses have some kind of restrictions on use; the GPL comes to mind.
- ensignavenger 4y agoI have always been more on the pragmatic side of the FOSS movement (open source versus the philosophical/moral stance of the FSF, but still have tremendous respect for the FSF). For pragmatic reasons I reject the Timescale License. It doesn't just prevent Amazon (that alone would be misguided enough, though) but also prevent anyone other than Timescale from hosting the software for me. That means even if Timescales current offerings lined up perfectly with my business, I would be locked into whatever decisions they make in the future which may not align. The chances for a successful community fork are greatly reduced under the restrictions of the Timescale license. It makes it impossible for the community to make contributions on equal footing to Timescale, thus anyone making contributions are just doing free work for a corporation, rather than contributing to a product the community benefits from just as much as the corporation.