let's call it what it is. warp never reached out. they do not want to have the name "redpanda" in their UI. that's all. They can* make money on 223 out of 225 connectors. More over the engine* remains MIT.
Not sure that you care, but you are doing an absolutely terrible job representing RP in nearly every comment I’ve seen you make on the topic. You need a coach I guess.
Let's call it what it is: Redpanda took a valuable OSS property, hard renamed it, and applied an arbitrary trademark restriction that did not exist the day before‡ and is not strictly controlled by the open source licence in question — in addition to relicensing part of the repository.
I don't have a dog in this fight. I have never used Benthos. But if someone started what Redpanda with a project that I use — commercially or otherwise — I would instantly fork it. I might not make a big announcement about it the way that Warp did, but I would absolutely be "keeping my powder dry" to see what other nonsense who did the first steps would pull.
You may not like what's happened, and Warp's incentives are certainly not pure, but they are reasonable considering what more than a few corporations have done, including Terraform, Elastic, and Mongo. Please stop pretending that you’re the good guys here.
‡ This is similar to Firefox's trademark restrictions resulting in Iceweasel, etc. There are some people who find Mozilla's restrictions applied to choosing different build settings to be excessive. Are you really surprised that people find your renaming and insta-trademark enforcement to be reminiscent of NewSpeak? Doubleplusungood.
