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by rch 3735 days ago
That's correct, and with such a significant license change I think the term 'unfork' is being used inappropriately in the title.

Edit: the PostGIS extension is GPL, and that license choice has been very successful. Hopefully the AGPL works out at least as well for Citus, I'm just not familiar enough to know what the implications will be in this context.
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gtrubetskoy 3735 days ago
>> the PostGIS extension is GPL

But then it doesn't really belong or aim to be in PostgreSQL proper, at least IMO, so I think that's fine.

The functionality (i.e. distributed processing and horizontal scaling) that Citus has done is something that I predict will eventually be part of standard PostgreSQL, but it will not be Citus's code (unless they change the license, of course).

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rch 3734 days ago
Alternative implementations will probably surface, but those will almost certainly be packaged as extensions as well.

I think the model could work in this case, both for the business and for PostgreSQL in general.

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