RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 7, 2017 1:28 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation by jhoblitt
Parent article: RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation

RethinkDB is by all accounts a pretty impressive piece of tech. It's one of the few "distributed databases" to actually live up to the name in Aphyr's tests: https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5

Compare to MongoDB, RethinkDB's most direct competitor: https://aphyr.com/tags/MongoDB

Their post-mortem is also worthwhile reading: http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed...

The CNCF (i.e., these folks: https://www.cncf.io/about/members) paying off the defunct company's creditors to relicense the code is a pretty extraordinary step. (The only precedent I can think of is the crowdfunding campaign that freed Blender?) This should give some idea about the value that at least some people perceive in it.

RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation

Posted Feb 8, 2017 16:46 UTC (Wed) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link]

Thanks for those links - looking at the list of CNCF companies who paid to free the code, its even less surprising that the code was relicensed to make it more friendly to Web Service providers.