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It is a venture capital startup. If I start use uv, what's our protection against the company going rogue?

• xyst 1y ago
  Community will fork it and move on. See the following examples: * Redis -> redict, valkey * elastic search -> opensearch * terraform -> opentofu (Probably a few more but those are the ones that come to mind when they "go rogue")
  • neves 1y ago
    Does the current license allow it?
    • anderskaseorg 1y ago
      Yes, uv has a standard permissive open source license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT): https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/?tab=readme-ov-file#license https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/?tab=readme-ov-file#license
    • FergusArgyll 1y ago
      Apache & MIT - Yes
• zffr 1y ago
  Why wouldn't you be able to switch back to using pip ?
  • nullhole 1y ago
    It seems like that'd work as long as you restrict yourself entirely to the pip interface. Stray outside of that, and you start accumulating a real dependency on uv itself.
    • maleldil 1y ago
      It's trivial to switch from uv to other projects like pdm or poetry. uv follows the standard PEPs really closely, so most things are interoperable.
  • kylecordes 1y ago
    If uv disappeared tomorrow, five projects would spring up to make compatible implementations of its functionality.
  • lmm 1y ago
    Because after a few years of using a non-awful tool you lose your tolerance for awfulness?
• walthamstow 1y ago
  I brought this up when leaders at my place were discussing implementing uv. I am verging on paranoid about this kind of thing. The answer is that we replaced all our of 'pip' with 'uv pip'. Shit goes south and we simply change it back at the cost of speed.