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Re:Firebase is Joining Google by grinich on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:32PM (#8489320)
Why not just open source it from the beginning? :)

https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox/blob/master/LICENSE

Re:Firebase is Joining Google by wlesieutre on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:16PM (#8489639)
I know some folks at Basho where they do just that with Riak, a high-availability distributed database. It's not an unworkable strategy, and clients know the product's not going to vanish out from under them.

https://github.com/basho