RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announcedthat it has purchased the rights to the RethinkDB NoSQL database andcontributed it to the Linux Foundation. In the process, the code wasrelicensed from the Affero GPLv3 to the Apache license. "RethinkDBis an open source, NoSQL, distributed document-oriented database that is inproduction use today by hundreds of technology startups, consulting firmsand Fortune 500 companies, including NASA, GM, Jive, Platzi, theU.S. Department of Defense, Distractify and Matters Media. Some of SiliconValley's top firms invested $12.2 million over more than eight years in theRethinkDB company to build a state-of-the-art database system, but wereunsuccessful in creating a sustainable business, and it shut down inOctober 2016."