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Here is the page of CockroachDB https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs.htm.... Their focus seems to be forbidding cloud vendors from selling their product as a service unless they allow it (a bit like Elastic).



Afaik Cockroach - as well as elastic and redis and many others - all followed Mongo DB and changed their licenses to a Source Available License (that is not accpeted by the OSI as open source) that aims to protect their cloud offering from cloud providers hosting it. Details vary afaik, e.g. Mongo has implemented a copyleft effect in their license for that specific case




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