Re:An update to the Timescale license
by dragonwriter on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:13PM
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Yes, it is necessary to prevent the core purpose of open source.
Which is fine, proprietary licenses are a valid option. Just don’t pretend it's almost open source. It's a source-available proprietary license designed to prevent the kind of exclusionary rent-extraction whose absence is central to the value proposition of open source.
Which is fine, proprietary licenses are a valid option. Just don’t pretend it's almost open source. It's a source-available proprietary license designed to prevent the kind of exclusionary rent-extraction whose absence is central to the value proposition of open source.