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by dwb 970 days ago
Not Open Source (in an OSI way):

https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/blob/ed60a35b9b539e1b...

2 comments

Is it claiming anywhere to be open source? I've heard an interview with the creators and they seemed pretty open about which aspects where open source and which aspects where shut down?

I could be missing something from their branding but I'd rather see projects with non-open source licenses from the beginning that bait-and-switch license change when they want to become profitable. (Although, I'd much rather just see a fully open source project)

Sure. I wasn't really trying to insinuate anything, although I think in a more-ideal world the licensing arrangements of all projects would be in a prominent place, especially if they use a "Star us on GitHub" call-to-action. It's a vital part of evaluating this sort of thing.
> Is it claiming anywhere to be open source?

They have a page on their website where they claim to be "an open source company" (https://surrealdb.com/opensource)

Certainly debatable copy, but in total fairness that page is a list of actually-Open-Source licensed projects.
It would indeed be better to state that clearly, then I don’t have to check it (our company has a policy which won’t get this passed).