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polskibus
2579 days ago
Does this mean that confluent will soon close the license in front of the public cloud providers?
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votepaunchy
2579 days ago
It isn’t as easy to do this for Kafka. Not only do they use the Apache License, as an Apache project they would need to completely change their governance. The ASF also owns the Apache trademark so Confluent would need to completely rebrand.
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=5213501
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https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=5213501