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Dragonfly is not open source, rather source available. Also, has anyone here used SkyTable as an alternative to Redis?

• wizzwizz4 3y ago
  Dragonfly's source available license reverts to Apache on 2028-03-15. I think this "Business Source License" is a wonderful idea: there are business reasons to have proprietary code (yet another indictment of how we've structured our society), but this retains a decent chunk of the long-term benefit-to-the-user that open source provides (namely, reduced vendor lock-in; ability to exercise GDPR data portability rights; ability to keep stuff going after the company goes bankrupt and its assets get bought by a creative-tax-accounting "business"). "Production" doesn't seem well-defined, so in practice this is probably a crayon license; and reverting to Apache gives you all the problems of permissive licenses. But it's a wonderful idea!
  • tuananh 3y ago
    > Dragonfly's source available license reverts to Apache on 2028-03-15 can you explain a bit more? how does it work?
    • detaro 3y ago
      The license says that the license will change to Apache2 on that date.
      • tuananh 3y ago
        what's the rationale for that? why would that benefit users when selecting which OSS to adopt?
        • detaro 3y ago
          It's not OSS. It becoming OSS in the future is somewhat of an insurance against its maker going out of business or making unacceptable changes and users being stuck with software they can't improve or fix.