“Lately we have been getting feedback from users of our open
source product, MantaRay, saying that our open-source license is
not very business friendly. Our product is a serverless messaging
middleware, in other words MantaRay is a JMS provider. Applications
import our manta.jar and work with it as if they had a messaging
server (broker) while actually they are working purely peer-2-peer.
All the logic that was in the server is distributed and embedded in
the edge applications.“MantaRay is released under the General Public License (GPL).
GPL is contagious, meaning that if you embed a GPL library in your
code you must release your own code under the GPL license as
well…”
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