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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by endisneigh on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:31AM (#39862788)
You seem to be confused. Even if the project is big and they change the license, so what?

The old code is there with the existing license still. Fork it and move on.

People, man.

Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by Barrin92 on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:47AM (#39863427)
you can't fork and maintain everything yourself, and that de-facto lock in is exactly what companies bank on when they pull this kind of bait and switch. The idea is precisely to gain popularity with open source, "the first dose is free" style, and then capitalize on the dependency and popularity. Literally just the developer analog to the misleading "everything is free and always will be" advertisements of consumer facing software.
Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by endisneigh on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:54AM (#39863496)
Ok find other people to help, that’s how open source works no?

There’s no issue here. Just whining. There is no lock in at all.

Even if it were OSI open source the maintainers like the very thread we are in could die. Then what? Oh you fork and maintain yourself, or the project rots.

License changes are irrelevant.

Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by rmbyrro on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:17AM (#39863747)
Do you have any idea of what constitutes an OSS project besides characters written on an versioned repository?