FireDucks: Pandas but Faster

In its essence it is a commercial product which has a free trial.

> Future Plans By providing the beta version of FireDucks free of charge and enabling data scientists to actually use it, NEC will work to improve its functionality while verifying its effectiveness, with the aim of commercializing it within FY2024.

Its BSD licensed. They do not way what the plans are but most likely a proprietary version with added support or features.

They say the source code for the part “where the magic happens” is not available so I am not sure what BSD implies there.

It's a BSD licensed binary blob. There's no code provided.

Wow! That is so weird.

Its freeware under an open source license. Really misleading.

It looks like something you should stay away from unless you need it REALLY badly. Its a proprietary product with unknown pricing and no indication of what their plans are.

Does the fact that the binary is BSD licensed allow reverse-engineering?

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted

Reversing and re-compiling should count as modification?

It serves as a ninja's smoke bomb until the "BSD" binary blob is suddenly obsoleted by a proprietary binary blob.