Why pgEdge ‘Ripped the Band-Aid Off’ To Go Totally Open Source

The hullabaloo over moves away from open source licensing — HashiCorp/OpenTofu anyone? — seems to have settled a bit, but continues in the database sphere.

One vendor bucking that trend is distributed Postgres vendor pgEdge. It recently announced it has gone totally open source and changed licensing on its Spock multimaster logical replication extension, large object logical replication (lolor) extension and Snowflake sequences from its proprietary pgEdge Community License to the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved PostgreSQL…