Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Re:Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached by benatkin on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:01PM (#31564093)

> Every major technological startup turned away from BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses due to inability to compete with cloud providers without technological edge.

No, there are plenty that still use permissive licenses.

GitLab uses MIT and a custom license for EE: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/licensing.html

Deno uses an MIT license and has some secret sauce that is currently just in hosted services AFAIK: https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/main/LICENSE.md

PlanetScale has hosted services and an open source tool called Vitess which is Apache licensed: https://planetscale.com/ https://github.com/vitessio/vitess

Finally Redis has a BSD licensed core, a source available license for additional modules, and a closed source license for enterprise. https://redis.com/legal/licenses/

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Re:Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached by romange on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:05AM (#31566009)

Redis has a BSD license because it was written by antirez who did not intend to make it a commercial enterprise. Today its too late to change and wont help Redis Inc to protect their ip. We looked at elastic, mongodb, cocroach labs, mariadb, redpanda, atlassian, grafana labs , scylladb. The last two are agpl but the motivation is the same: to protect themselves.

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