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by williamstein 3545 days ago
Slava: As the commercial strategy is over, please release everything under a very liberal open source license rather than AGPL (the current RethinkDB license). Please. I have invested so much in building on RethinkDB, and you can't just will a genuine open source community into existence without giving them the power that comes with a liberal license. Honestly, right now I'm evaluating how I can rewrite everything I've built to not use RethinkDB, which will take me months of fulltime work...
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I really, really, hope that's why they've gone quiet, that they're minimising disruptions while they're re-licensing to a more liberal license while transferring ownership to a foundation.