Oh bummer. I was really excited about pgrust but AGPL is a dealbreaker. Not for me personally, but it will never see wide adoption because it’s a banned license in most corporate environments. Lack of path to wide adoption means it’s dead in the water.
It’s weird because those who actually care about optimized pg gains are most likely large corporate customers. Why make a product targeting them and license it in such a way they’ll never use it?
This also hard blocks upstreaming any beneficial features into core Postgres.
Most official Rust projects are dual MIT/Apache licensed by convention [1] (and most Rust libraries from third parties I've seen that are open source MIT follow the MIT/Apache dual license), so seems like this library shouldn't just be AGPL for a typical political choice of a Rustacean?
pgrust seems to have good momentum. AGPL is an odd license for a non web project. Postgres is MIT-like, and that drove it's adoption.
Have pgrust folks reconsidered this? Else, IMO we can have an independant rust port of pgrust, which can be MIT, which will garner more attention.
Oh bummer. I was really excited about pgrust but AGPL is a dealbreaker. Not for me personally, but it will never see wide adoption because it’s a banned license in most corporate environments. Lack of path to wide adoption means it’s dead in the water.
It’s weird because those who actually care about optimized pg gains are most likely large corporate customers. Why make a product targeting them and license it in such a way they’ll never use it?
This also hard blocks upstreaming any beneficial features into core Postgres.
Everything around Rust is political, so the license choices are also about political statement.
Most official Rust projects are dual MIT/Apache licensed by convention [1] (and most Rust libraries from third parties I've seen that are open source MIT follow the MIT/Apache dual license), so seems like this library shouldn't just be AGPL for a typical political choice of a Rustacean?
[1]: https://rust-lang.org/policies/licenses/
official projects are usually run by sensible people who want to do things and aren't leading with ideology.
We're literally talking about an "X but in Rust" project already...
2 commits in the repo both generated by claude. This is AI slop, I wonder where you see good momentum?
main indeed has two commits, but it clearly states the location of the rest of the commits, so I wouldn't be critical of main itself.
Now we see https://github.com/malisper/pgrust/tree/v0.2 has almost 6000 commits in it, with the very first one on 2026-07-02. That's a lot of token momentum!It's easy to claim AI slop nowadays, but you should still mistrust-but-verify.
4K stargazers in a week.