ScyllaDB moving to a source available license

https://www.scylladb.com/2024/12/18/why-were-moving-to-a-source-available-license/

by twoodfin • 2 years ago

14 10 2 years ago

positioning themselves to sell

splix4• 2 years ago

I like Scylla and we use it, so I wish them well. But what I don't understand with this announcement is how it supposed to work if they don't publish the pricing model. Just "contact us to get a quote". How people are supposed to make advance plans without clear pricing?

lakomen• 2 years ago

Of course it is. All those open source copycat projects, using open source to get exposure then switching. Boo. Just like cockroachdb. Taking Open source contributions for free then making it spyware or payware.

Bleh

splix4• 2 years ago

I would say it's opposite. No one contributes to open source and the developers have to make money on the side to work on the project (i.e., do consulting/tech support/etc). Or more often companies with money come to fork an open source project from the developer, and continue pretending it's their own now.

jjirsa3• 2 years ago

I would say it's opposite. No one contributes to open source and the developers have to make money on the side to work on the project

You missed the important part of his sentence:

All those open source copycat projects, using open source to get exposure then switching

The original open source here was Cassandra. Scylla exists to pick off that market share. They launch with a free license, pull customers, then swap license. The actual adoption of Scylla would have been a fraction had it been released under this license to start, which everyone understands.

Or more often companies with money come to fork an open source project from the developer, and continue pretending it's their own now

It had already been AGPL, so it's not like they're protecting against competition. They already had a license that avoided the forking problem. This isn't protection against AWS (keyspaces likely has more OSS cassandra code in the protocol tier than it has Scylla code, if it has either). It's protection against free consumption.

pabs3• 2 years ago

Hmm, which license are they switching to?

ScyllaDB moving to a source available license

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