PeterZaitsev
4 hours ago
Looking at the License - This is not Open Source, but rather Source Available software.
Looks great but do not appreciate deceptive marketing
mdaniel
4 hours ago
And it seems their misnomer is practically everywhere, not just in the Show HN: their website also mislabels their links as "Open Source" - I guess trying to capitalize on SEO
SSPLv1 for anyone similarly interested https://github.com/inngest/inngest/blob/v1.0.0/LICENSE.md
Seems they had a change of heart around 2022: https://github.com/inngest/inngest/pull/81 but they actually only started lying about the license in this go-around because their previous Show HN <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403014> not only didn't mislabel things but they even said "we're gonna open source in the future" but I guess the future isn't here yet
tonyhb
3 hours ago
We'll roll out a change that releases source as GPL after 3-4 years next week, actually. I do appreciate these comments and points.
lgsilver
2 hours ago
And the production infra for running isn't even available, just a pared down "development server" via SSPL. This is a long way from OSS.
tonyhb
an hour ago
There might be a bit of misunderstanding on what's in that git repo here. It actually contains the executor, state store, queue, and our production UI, plus the syncing, registration, and logic for functions.
Earlier this year we didn't want folks to roll their own production cloud due to queueing migrations. It would make your life hard. We're entirely responsible for that right now, as we discouraged self hosting.
That's actually coming to a close, and we'll make it easy to spin up prod clusters using this code and eg. MemoryDB, Dragonfly, or what have you.
mdaniel
2 hours ago
Well, my experience has been closer to the "more eyes make for shallow bugs" school of thought, so opening the source to contributions would actually help that process, not hinder it
I've written quite a lot of CI for projects because it's something I believe in and am willing to roll up my sleeves to get done (as a concrete example). I believe strongly that being able to reference the canonical CI build helps contributors since they can see how it's built for different systems and also ensure they don't submit "works on my machine" patches
lgsilver
2 hours ago
Agree. This is absolutely deceptive. It's too bad how the OSS moniker is being misused these days...