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0 pointsensignavenger1y ago0 comments

It is described as a rugpull because of the marketing around it being open source. Coackroach however was never open source, it was BSL licensed. This change does appear to mean that old versions will no longer eventually convert to open source, though.

Thus it would be up to the the BSL promoters and marketers to decide whether or not this is a rugpull. As an open source user and proponent, I don't really care.

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eatonphil1y ago

> Coackroach however was never open source, it was BSL licensed.

It used to be Apache2. :)

Their blog post announcing this in 2019 happens to now 404:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroach...

ensignavengerOP1y ago

My bad, I was wrong then. They even still falsely claim on github that it is open source, too (thanks to another commenter for pointing that out.).

ezekg1y ago

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190604173131/https://www.cockr...

wging1y ago

Really does appear to be memory-holed, rather than just having moved. Not a good look. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acockroachlabs.com+"Co...."

john-flu-fix1y ago

Cockroach hasn’t marketed itself as open source for years

warvariuc1y ago

> CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

ezekg1y ago

They seem to have fixed it.

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0 pointsensignavenger1y ago0 comments

Thus it would be up to the the BSL promoters and marketers to decide whether or not this is a rugpull. As an open source user and proponent, I don't really care.