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Lots of congratulating on this thread and a hell of a lot of points for a software release. I've been on HN consistently for a long while and I didn't realize there was so much love and hype for RethinkDB here. Have I missed something?
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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.
No, the AGPL uses strong copyleft, so any future derivative work must be released under the same terms (and the same license or later versions if I'm not mistaken). The only possibility is to start a closed source clone that doesn't use any of the original code from zero. The cases in which the community forks a project licensed with a copyleft license (like LibreOffice) has to do with insatisfaction with the directi…
Slava @ RethinkDB here.
This has one exception -- the copyright owner can choose to start releasing enhancements as closed source, and they wouldn't be legally obligated to open source them. Currently RethinkDB, Inc. owns the rights to the code -- if we wanted to continue developing closed-source enhancements, technically we could. If we were acquired and our acquirer chose to do that, they could too (since they'd end up owning the rights to the code). Copyright and licensing are different things -- essentially the copyright owner has the right to relicense future code in a different way.
We have extremely strong incentives not to engage in bad behavior (and it runs against our beliefs), but I thought I'd point out that there is no legal barrier.
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Slava @ Rethink here. We're planning to take the most well-supported community drivers under the RethinkDB umbrella (assuming the authors agree, of course). It will almost certainly be a collaboration with the community, but we'll be contributing much more to the community drivers, supporting the authors, and offering commercial support for these drivers to our customers.
That's good to hear, because the Go driver has been exhaustively maintained by a single developer ( https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink ) Dan Cannon, and I'm sure he (as well as the Go community) would love to see some support.
Selling support is a great non-intrusive business model.
That can be a good thing or a bad thing.
There are reasons to write TypeScript definitions for documentation generation too, if not for the code as TS.
Lots of congratulating on this thread and a hell of a lot of points for a software release. I've been on HN consistently for a long while and I didn't realize there was so much love and hype for RethinkDB here. Have I missed something?
Congratulations, been looking forward to this release for a while!
For more information check out https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink/releases/tag/v0.7.0.