[benrutter]

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)

[dwb]

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.

[khuey]

> 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)

[dwb]

Certainly debatable copy, but in total fairness that page is a list of actually-Open-Source licensed projects.