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I mean Supabase was initially a glue layer on top of existing open-source tools, not sure if they could’ve kept it closed source even if they wanted (though I g
by throwaway63467 3y ago
I mean Supabase was initially a glue layer on top of existing open-source tools, not sure if they could’ve kept it closed source even if they wanted (though I guess most of the licenses of the stuff they used would allow it).
- awalias 3y agoThis is true! Supabase db after all is "just" Postgres. In fact it's one of our product principles to adopt existing open source projects before writing our own. You're also correct on the second bit, everything in the stack is MIT, apache2, postgres licensed so it would have been ok to run a closed fork if we'd have been that way inclined.