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@danb I feel like there is no winning with that argument: when cockroach changed to a more restrictive license, everyone blamed it on a lack of success. so going more open is the same?

and we would not wish anyone a legal dispute with someone as large as amazon; https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-and-amazon-reach-agreement-on-trademark-infringement-lawsuit had to be done but it was not fun

@xeraa I'm assuming that's in reference to the success part? I wasn't making an argument, just summarizing how the post read to me (the post pre-empts that but never makes any argument against it, and instead has a bunch of corpo future talk).

If you are switching because of lacking success, I guess that's still good but it does reflect a whim to change based on business/growth goals rather than full ideal/alignment to open source itself, which again can impact trust.

@danb it's a longer-term plan (also because you cannot take something back once it's out under a specific license)
but we are of course still a company that also needs to fund the development :)