Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary [LWN.net]

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 31, 2021 23:49 UTC (Sun) by jejb (subscriber, #6654)
In reply to: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary by kemitchell
Parent article: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

> And I've collaborated on a license that I think goes to the same goal, with a much more robust and approachable language.

The Round Robin Licence to me actually seems very similar in intent and action to the Reciprocal Public Licence, which is OSI approved.

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Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Feb 1, 2021 1:09 UTC (Mon) by kemitchell (subscriber, #124442) [Link]

As much as it warms my heart to read the letters "RPL" from someone else, I must warn you, from experience, that you will make a lot more people angry than happy by mentioning it!

Fun Fact! The Technical Pursuit guys, who came up with RPL for a JavaScript web framework before anybody thought that was a thing, are still at it. I've run into a few other companies, too: ActiveAgenda, Open Justice Broker Consortium, Particular Software, Pixelglow.