Ask HN: Thoughts about Elastic V2, SSPL, or mixed software licenses?

• ubicloud

  16 3,050 9.9 Ruby

  Open, free, and portable cloud. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), virtual networking, managed Postgres, and IAM services in public beta.

  

Link to our project: https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud

We’re choosing Elastic V2 for three reasons: (1) We’re planning to monetize through a managed service and we’d like the license to support that, (2) Later if we change our mind, we think it’s easier on our users if we go from a restrictive license to a more permissive one, and (3) The Elastic V2 license is much simpler than its cousin, Server Side Public License (SSPL).

That said, Elastic V2 is a new license and doesn’t seem to as popular as SSPL. Also, some projects out there mix and match multiple licenses in their repo to be able to call themselves open source.

Any insights / feedback on Elastic V2 or software licenses in general?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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