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by lovasoa 1400 days ago
On the other hand, you are able to use all of the libraries that you use only because they didn't make the same choice as you, and chose truly open-source licenses...

In particular, the scaling abilities of your product seem to be based on the capabilities of TiKV, which itself is based on RocksDB. These are both databases in and of themselves, and if any of these two had adopted the same license as you, then you wouldn't have been able to release the product you are releasing...