(Yes, of course I use proprietary services where necessary and they can’t be avoided. This isn’t one of those cases. Example of things where I’m pretty adamant about it: server OSes. Databases. Programming languages. Web servers.)
For now it's source-available with generous limit, but this can be changed or revoked at any time, and this may immediately make your existing installations illegal.
Heck, even some source available licenses doesn't allow you to compile that thing, let alone get parts and use it elsewhere.
However, I somewhat like source available licenses currently, because they're neat little mines that sneak in to training sets of generative AI models and make the models less suitable for serious work.
I wonder if this means YDB (from the devs of Clickhouse) will get some traction (https://ydb.tech/) or if there are other massive scale scylladb-types of DB's out there.
I found it kinda surprising (it's kinda tough when a primary DB choice is no longer open source!), although not that surprising given the fact that this keeps happening to VC-backed DB startups.
Patreon and pray or go broke?
The Redhat model just doesn’t work in 2024 with the sharks constantly looking for fresh meat.
The source code will be available at https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb. Commit notes and comments will also be available in the same repo.
