RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing?

How is RethinkDB licensed?

The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/faq/

Re: RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

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Post by _dancannon » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

Congratulations, been looking forward to this release for a while!

Re: RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

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Post by danielmewes » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

richardwigley wrote: post #4

Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing? How is RethinkDB licensed? The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/…

Daniel @ RethinkDB here. As you mention, RethinkDB is fully open source so RethinkDB is always going to remain freely available.

Re: RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

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Post by expando » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:43 PM UTC

Selling support is a great non-intrusive business model.

Re: RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

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Post by richardwigley » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

danielmewes wrote: post #6

richardwigley wrote: post #4

Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing? How is RethinkDB licensed? The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/…

Daniel @ RethinkDB here. As you mention, RethinkDB is fully open source so RethinkDB is always going to remain freely available.

Authoritative source of information, thanks ;-) I will evaluate it on my next project.

Re: RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

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Post by babo » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

Looking forward to install it from homebrew but it's not there yet. Good to see that for python drivers PIP is already updated!

Re: RethinkDB 2.0 is now production ready

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Apr 14, 2015, 3:50 PM UTC

danielmewes wrote: post #6

richardwigley wrote: post #4

Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing? How is RethinkDB licensed? The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/…

Daniel @ RethinkDB here. As you mention, RethinkDB is fully open source so RethinkDB is always going to remain freely available.

This does not discount the possibility of a license change after a hypothetical acquisition, however. Though in that case you'll likely get a community fork branching off the upstream proprietary base.