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I personally wouldn't do this even for an MVP. The product is competitive with Airbyte and they're breaking Airbyte's license. Definitely cases where it's ok t
by mritchie712 4y ago
I personally wouldn't do this even for an MVP. The product is competitive with Airbyte and they're breaking Airbyte's license.
Definitely cases where it's ok to do something similar for an MVP, but I wouldn't touch this product knowing they can't continue to operate it this way (could get shut down at any moment).
I'm a bit surprised someone at YC didn't flag this.
- swyx 4y agofor what its worth airbyte's connectors themselves are MIT https://airbyte.com/blog/a-new-license-to-future-proof-the-commoditization-of-data-integration https://airbyte.com/blog/a-new-license-to-future-proof-the-c... arguably this is "much of it" rather than ELv2
- Nebyou 4y agoThanks for raising this. We share your respect for the intellectual property rights of others. We are aware of Airbyte's license structure and use connectors per its terms.
- danpalmer 4y agoNice, if the connectors are MIT licenced but you've got your own server, that's great. It might be worth differentiating the product further. Right now, looking at screenshots, it looks like a re-skin. I realise there's only so much you can differentiate an ETL service, and that the LLM feature is the main differentiating factor, but I do worry that it's very close right now.
- jeanlaf 4y agoHi team! I'm one of the Airbyte co-founders. I think it might be worth chatting regarding the license indeed :). Don't hesitate to reach out to me on our Slack "John (Airbyte)"