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uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

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740 points chirau | 3 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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neves ◴[23 Jun 25 18:39 UTC] No.44358711[source]▶
It is a venture capital startup. If I start use uv, what's our protection against the company going rogue?
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xyst ◴[23 Jun 25 18:43 UTC] No.44358744[source]▶
Community will fork it and move on. See the following examples:

* Redis -> redict, valkey

* elastic search -> opensearch

* terraform -> opentofu

(Probably a few more but those are the ones that come to mind when they "go rogue")

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1. neves ◴[23 Jun 25 22:00 UTC] No.44360627[source]▶
Does the current license allow it?
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2. anderskaseorg ◴[23 Jun 25 22:14 UTC] No.44360748[source]▶
Yes, uv has a standard permissive open source license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT): https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/?tab=readme-ov-file#license
3. FergusArgyll ◴[23 Jun 25 22:26 UTC] No.44360831[source]▶
Apache & MIT - Yes