> I would read this as that stakeholders have not been eager to donate the RethinkDB IP to a foundation, so perhaps there either are commercial parties interested in the IP, or the stakeholders think there might be.
Can't blame them. I'd do the same thing as an investor.
The only way this IP will be open sourced would be if the purchaser of the IP chooses to do so.
That would be like a Lamborghini dealership trying to squeeze an extra hundred bucks from a $2K '94 Dogde Colt that by some happenstance came into their possession. There is no rational justification for this course of action.
EDIT: except a new Lamborghini is only two orders of magnitude more valuable than a '94 Colt, a successful startup is five to eight orders of magnitude more valuable than a failed one.
Can't blame them. I'd do the same thing as an investor.
The only way this IP will be open sourced would be if the purchaser of the IP chooses to do so.