> Revenue through hosting continues to be the big driver for all of these projects, which is what is motivating the license changes.
Yeah, isn’t this just massive cloud providers eating the lunch of Redis etc? I don’t know enough about the licensing but I highly empathize with these small-mid sized companies building foundational tech that is commoditized and upcharged by an oligopolistic cloud behemoths. Surprised it's taken this long.
Question: what other alternatives than license changes are there, assuming we want a healthy ecosystem of both businesses and open source?
TimescaleDB has an open core style license that seems to prevent the cloud services from repackaging their DB.
It's not technically fully open source, but it's pretty close to it.
Actually, I just took another look and they now market their "open core" as the apache edition (or perhaps have diverged from the "community edition" now)
Yeah, isn’t this just massive cloud providers eating the lunch of Redis etc? I don’t know enough about the licensing but I highly empathize with these small-mid sized companies building foundational tech that is commoditized and upcharged by an oligopolistic cloud behemoths. Surprised it's taken this long.
Question: what other alternatives than license changes are there, assuming we want a healthy ecosystem of both businesses and open source?