RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced
that it has purchased the rights to the RethinkDB NoSQL database and
contributed it to the Linux Foundation. In the process, the code was
relicensed from the Affero GPLv3 to the Apache license. "RethinkDB
is an open source, NoSQL, distributed document-oriented database that is in
production use today by hundreds of technology startups, consulting firms
and Fortune 500 companies, including NASA, GM, Jive, Platzi, the
U.S. Department of Defense, Distractify and Matters Media. Some of Silicon
Valley’s top firms invested $12.2 million over more than eight years in the
RethinkDB company to build a state-of-the-art database system, but were
unsuccessful in creating a sustainable business, and it shut down in
October 2016."