Datomic Is Now Free

Re:Datomic Is Now Free by martypitt on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:22AM (#35728541)

They say the binaries are being made under Apache 2.

They don't say anything about the source code being published. That's why (to me) this is so interesting. I've never seen binaries released without source code before.

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Re:Datomic Is Now Free by pjmlp on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:26AM (#35728627)

We used to call it Public Domain and Shareware (with variations like Coffeeware, Beerware, Postware,...)

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Re:Datomic Is Now Free by stefan_ on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:36AM (#35728793)

What is even the point of releasing binaries under Apache 2? When I patch the binaries, do I need to release a hexdiff too to fulfill my Apache obligations? Very weird.

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Re:Datomic Is Now Free by politician on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:03AM (#35729198)

I suppose you could run it through a Java decompiler and clean up the results with an LLM. How long would that take? 5 years to make it useful?

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Re:Datomic Is Now Free by vore on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:11PM (#35736064)

I wonder if they took a page out of Fabrice Bellard's book: https://bellard.org/ts_server/

  The CPU version is released as binary code under the MIT license.

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