Re:MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective
by deniscoady on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:33PM
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Disclaimer, I work at Redpanda.
Redpanda Community Edition is licensed with the Redpanda Business Source License (BSL). The core features are free and source-available.
This license was inspired by MariaDB and CockroachDB and "for 99.999% of users, restrictions will not apply". The big restriction is that users "cannot provide Redpanda as a commercial streaming or queuing service to others" which is primarily to deter large cloud vendors from taking our work and impacting our ability to operate as a business.
Here are some links for more details on how we came to this decision and how we license all our products and features.
Redpanda Community Edition is licensed with the Redpanda Business Source License (BSL). The core features are free and source-available.
This license was inspired by MariaDB and CockroachDB and "for 99.999% of users, restrictions will not apply". The big restriction is that users "cannot provide Redpanda as a commercial streaming or queuing service to others" which is primarily to deter large cloud vendors from taking our work and impacting our ability to operate as a business.
Here are some links for more details on how we came to this decision and how we license all our products and features.
https://redpanda.com/blog/bsl-source-available-license
https://docs.redpanda.com/docs/get-started/licenses/