This is certainly a great improvement in the license! Kudos to TimescaleDB.
I wonder if the new license allows us to offer services on top of TimescaleDB in a multi-tenant setting. GitLab.com has metric monitoring https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/operations/metrics/ and we're considering using TimescaleDB to store these. We would not offer direct access to the database.
The relevant section in the license https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses seems to be the prohibition to "provide any form of software-as-a-service or service offering in which the TSL Licensed Software is offered or made available to third parties to provide time-series database functions or operations, other than as part of Your Value Added Products or Services".
I'm not sure if metrics count as time-series database functions or operations.
I wonder if the new license allows us to offer services on top of TimescaleDB in a multi-tenant setting. GitLab.com has metric monitoring https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/operations/metrics/ and we're considering using TimescaleDB to store these. We would not offer direct access to the database.
The relevant section in the license https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses seems to be the prohibition to "provide any form of software-as-a-service or service offering in which the TSL Licensed Software is offered or made available to third parties to provide time-series database functions or operations, other than as part of Your Value Added Products or Services".
I'm not sure if metrics count as time-series database functions or operations.