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This is great work! Could you please comment on the choice of your license. Lost Postgres extension that achieve wide adoption use Postgres, MIT or Apache license.

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All ParadeDB extensions are released under AGPL-3.0. We've found that it strikes the right balance between being open-source and enabling the community to adopt for free, while also protecting us from hyperscalers and enabling us to build a sustainable business. Perhaps the topic of a blog post someday :)

It looks like hyper scalers can still host it as long as they are publishing changes to the source code ? Am I reading the license right ?

For aws to make it available on rds Aurora, would it be safe to assume there would have to be some changes to the extension source to make it compatible with the Aurora engine? If we assume aws doesn’t want todo that, then their licensing provides some protection there.

Yeah exactly. In practice, we've inspired ourselves from the likes of Citus and others who have adopted the AGPL-3.0 license as a good compromise and have found success. It's rather comment nowadays for infra startups to use AGPL-3.0. Other noteworthy examples: MinIO, Quickwit, Lago, etc.

Yes

Well, MongoDB was under AGPL v3.0 :)

I applaud the decision to use AGPL-3.0.

For me, it's a license that provides forward guarantees to the Community: no proprietary forks can happen, so any fork will be an OSS fork from which the upstream project may benefit too, which benefits all users.

That's the reason we chose this license for StackGres [1], another project in the Postgres space.

[1]: https://stackgres.io

Another great benefit of it indeed

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