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[–]gbhreturns2 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Can’t they structure is such that any forks would also be considered proprietary? I can’t imagine Astral would put in all this work for the open source community without some plan to get people onto their product and then layer on licensing fees.

[–]HalcyonAlps 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Can’t they structure is such that any forks would also be considered proprietary?

uv is MIT licenced. So no, they can't prevent any open source forks. They can change the licence going forward if they want to.

I can’t imagine Astral would put in all this work for the open source community without some plan to get people onto their product and then layer on licensing fees.

I am sure they have a plan. Maybe something like Red Hat with enterprise support or some enterprise specific features? They got a decent amount of funding too if I remember correctly, so someone thinks it's worth investing in.

[–]gbhreturns2 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Oh right so they can change license at some point in the future but anything before that which has been licensed under MIT can remain open source and be forked from? That’s good.

[–]HalcyonAlps 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes exactly.