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Being MIT licensed, does that mean that another company could also offer this as a hosted solution? Did you think about encumbering with a license that allowed commercial use, but prohibited resale?

Also, somewhat related, years ago I wrote a very small framework for fan-out of Django-based tasks in Celery. We have been running it in production for years. It doesn't have adoption beyond our company, but I think there are some good ideas in it. Feel free to take a look if it's of interest! https://github.com/groveco/django-sprinklers

>>numloc+(OP)
I'm not sure that it matters... all the cloud providers has simple queues and more complex orchestrators available already.

I do think their cloud offering is interesting, and being PostgreSQL backed is a big plus for in-house development.

>>numloc+(OP)
I’m also interested in understand the context for MIT instead of dual licensing for commercial needs, what’s the current best strategy ?

>>numloc+(OP)
I feel like just rehosting an actively maintained github repo would draw significant negative PR. And even if not, I feel like part of this business plan revolves around becoming a relatively big part of the ecosystem; one or two cloud providers potentially poaching your customers with a drop down option could easily be worth more in advertising than you’re losing in subscription dollars.

I’m guessing :shrug:

>>numloc+(OP)
Very cool! Does it support the latest version of Celery?

And to answer the question, no, the license doesn't restrict a company from offering a hosted version of Hatchet. We chose the license that we'd want to see if we were making a decision to adopt Hatchet.

That said, managing and running the cloud version is significantly from a version meant for one org -- the infra surrounding the cloud version manages hundreds and eventually thousands of different tenants. While it's all the same open-source engine + API, there's a lot of work required to distribute the different engine components in a way that's reliable and supports partitioning databases between tenants.