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jen20
on Aug 15, 2024
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CockroachDB license change
According to Wikipedia, Yugabyte (the company) has taken 290 million dollars of VC money. It's probably a safe assumption that they will follow the same path soon enough.
spiffytech
on Aug 15, 2024
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While the future is unwritten, FWIW in 2019 Yugabyte moved
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Apache 2.0, open-sourcing features that were previously paywalled.
They wrote up their rationale here:
https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/why-we-changed-yugabyte-db-lic...
redwood
on Aug 16, 2024
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How's their business growing compared to Cockroach?
riku_iki
on Aug 15, 2024
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This won't prevent them back to paywall in future if investors ask.
largbae
on Aug 15, 2024
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True, but unlike BSL you can fork the last Apache commit the day they do.
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