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Comment by codeaether

6 days ago

License? It doesn't seem to be open sourced.

I am one of the co-founders of StreamNative.

Currently Ursa is only available in our cloud service. But we do plan to open-source the core soon. Stay tuned.

  • Can't wait for you guys to open source this stuff. If I may ask, what's the license you guys are thinking of? Since I am interested in hoping to someday live as a developer while working on open source too but its a tough line b/w getting no sponsors with MIT license and being called non foss and being charged in HN for some crimes because you used some license like SSPL or some custom license.

    The sad reality is that most people in open source want stuff for free and won't pay back and that sucks. So what are your thoughts on this? I am genuinely curious.

    The second part as someone noted, in a comment of the parent comment that you are responding, that code is not the most important part here, how much do you agree with that statement? Since to me, If I can self host it using open source without using your cloud service but rather using amazon directly, I do think that might be cheaper than using the cloud service directly.

    • People are suspicious to being rug pulled. There have been many of those instances in the past, where companies advertised with FOSS, but didn’t mean it. A proper FOSS license and clear and assuring communication about the long term freedoms associated with the product are important.

More than technology it is cloud service. So I think code is not the most interesting part here.