Relicensing CockroachDB
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Relicensing CockroachDB
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Re: Relicensing CockroachDB
#2Unrelated, but it never occurred to me that cockroachdb and gimp were made by the same persons ! Kudos ! (If I'm not mistaken)
Re: Relicensing CockroachDB
#3This is pretty interesting, I'm thinking about how edge cases will be handled. Consider a product like Airtable: at present I think most people would classify it as a consumer productivity tool. Firebase on the other end would be a platform as a service. Airtable is adding features that make it more of a platform as a service. I wonder where the line will be drawn for the new BSL.
Re: Relicensing CockroachDB
#4This is more validation of the threat that cloud providers (mainly AWS) are to businesses built around open source products. Yes, AWS and others are legally permitted by existing open source licenses to create SaaS versions of these open source products, but with cloud computing becoming an increasingly winner-take-all market, it leaves little room for the software's authors to generate revenue via hosted offerings of their software. If you think that the Cockroach Labs, Redis Labs, Mongos, Elastics, etc., of the world provide a net benefit to the software world, I think you have to contend with the fact that there is going to be fewer such companies in the future if AWS keeps eating their lunch.
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#5Maybe a good time to change the name as well? Funny names are cute and all but if you want to gain mainstream acceptance for your database product CockroachDB is not the one I would have picked.
Downvoters: if you think names for products do not matter you are mistaken.
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#6Recently discussed with somebody at a major cloud provider and IIRC their response was in essence “I think we’re doing them a favor: ask Neo4j about our release of [hosted graph database service]. We’ve taken a share of their business, but the overall market is much bigger, and they’re doing great. Our hosted products are not even the most polished in the market, and companies like Elastic can easily be compete with us.”
Thoughts?
Re: Relicensing CockroachDB
#7> The one and only thing that you cannot do is offer a commercial version of CockroachDB as a service without buying a license.
How much a SaaS has to do to not be consider as selling CockroachDB as is?
These questions apart is worth noting that AWS can still copy CockroachDB APIs, rename it AWS Ants, and called it a day.
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#8I wasn't able to find a link to the new license in the blog post but it is in their github repo for anyone interested https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/license...
Re: Relicensing CockroachDB
#9This is pretty interesting, I'm thinking about how edge cases will be handled. Consider a product like Airtable: at present I think most people would classify it as a consumer productivity tool. Firebase on the other end would be a platform as a service. Airtable is adding features that make it more of a platform as a service. I wonder where the line will be drawn for the new BSL.
I have a feeling it comes down to how it's exposed, and who is "using" cockroachDB.
If Airtable uses cockroachDB then that's fine. The issue is when the cockroachDB is the product that the customer pays for.
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#10Unrelated, but it never occurred to me that cockroachdb and gimp were made by the same persons ! Kudos ! (If I'm not mistaken)
Wow you're right, I just looked it up. Very nice!