Re: a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:11:11 -0400 Antoine Beaupré wrote: [...] > Okay, so what's in that `tsl/` folder? there you have *another* LICENSE > file which is a custom license written specifically (presumably by > lawyers) for timescaleDB: > >

Re: a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Sebastian Crane
Dear Antoine, > It was pointed out to me that TimescaleDB has a "open core" model and > it's actually possible to build an "apache-2.0-only" version of the > program. Yup, it looks like all files in the tsl/ directory are governed by the proprietary license, and can be excluded from builds:

Re: a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Antoine Beaupré
It was pointed out to me that TimescaleDB has a "open core" model and it's actually possible to build an "apache-2.0-only" version of the program. The differences between the two are here: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/timescaledb-edition-comparison/ ... and guix actually made a

a quick review of the timescaledb license

2022-06-07 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi, For work, I was asked to deploy a TimescaleDB server and figured "bah, that's C code, why isn't this in Debian!" I was about to file an RFP when I tripped over the "unknown" license on their GitHub repository: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/ I found that it's not actually licensed