CockroachDB license change

Post by Conan_Kudo » Sat, Aug 17, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

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This is not true even in those spaces anymore. Games these days require libraries like SDL, or (increasingly) use engines like Godot. Defense is a weird place, but open source is used quite a lot there, it's often required to do so and to record the open source consumed to produce a product. And often times, it must be commercial open source where you can get engineering support for the lifetime of the product's exis…

Not at all, when talking about game consoles.

Post by swiftcoder » Sat, Aug 17, 2024, 8:45 PM UTC

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> AGPL requires you only to provide the source code of your fork to its users The AGPLv3 is exactly the same as the GPLv3, except with the added clause that connecting to a server counts as distribution for the purposes of triggering the right to obtain source code. That means all the usual GPL copyleft rules apply: if you include an AGPL library in your server binary, the entire binary becomes subject to the AGPL. A…

Ah but what if you bundle both your application binary and some (unmodified) AGPL software into a single Docker container? Do you then need to provide source code for your entire application?

Post by jokethrowaway » Sat, Aug 17, 2024, 10:33 PM UTC

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Well what do you expect to maintain the mouse’s cloud servers, if not subscription revenue? The greed here!

if the server was integral to the running of the service then yes, it makes sense to discontinue it when there's no more profit to be made. However, increasingly more and more services which could've been an on-premises deployment become SAAS. This includes games (live services they call it). It is _designed_ to end, and designed to not be able to run locally. Tell me who's the greedy one.

Post by camgunz » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 9:41 AM UTC

swiftcoder wrote: post #443

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Ah but what if you bundle both your application binary and some (unmodified) AGPL software into a single Docker container? Do you then need to provide source code for your entire application?

That's the kind of question that only really gets answered when a judge rules on it. The pertinent question here is roughly whether the combined docker image constitutes a "derived work" of the AGPL software

Post by 999900000999 » Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

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But if I could just go to Amazon directly,presumably they'd offer support, how do I give you money. I just don't understand how for-profit company can develop true open source software. You can have a non profit foundation and a for profit support studio. Godot effectively does this. Plus if you've taken VC money you can always get voted out in a few years. Or just have a nice exit. I wouldn't be mad at anyone for ta…

If you go to Amazon directly, this is great - you continue using our products and recommending them to your friends. Probably, next time you'll become our customer. For example, if you aren't satisfied with the support from Amazon, or there are some missing features at Amazon, or if you just switch department or company. We develop open source products, we are profitable and we have good revenue growth rate. We make…