> Could somebody clarify the license? I was excited this was Open Source, but then some people say you are only allowed to run it on MacOS? How can that be?
Thank you! This is legit, glad to see it is Apache2.
EDIT: Why on earth are people downvoting this comment, is Apache2 hated by most HNers?? It is one of the best licenses out there.
EDIT 2: RE: @sigstoat comment:
I read through the whole article and even checked out and read through JosephG's (ShareJS author) FDB repo before commenting, and had even read the other comments (which is where I saw the MacOS thing). Just to clear the air (thanks @sigstoat for suggesting an answer).
I followed FDB back when it was proprietary too, which is part of my curiosity if proprietary -> OSS receives a bigger reaction than companies like CockroachDB who have always been OSS. It has taken CockroachDB years to get to 13K stars, compare to FDB's 7K+ in just two weeks, I'm really interested in how/why behind these mechanics.
all of your comments appear to be getting downvotes, probably because they look suspiciously as though you haven't even spent 45 seconds on the website, despite being in the database space yourself.
there's nothing to clarify. there are people spewing nutty weirdness, and then there's https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/master/LICENSE
if that somehow isn't convincing, they distribute linux binaries.