Gregory's ServerArmin’s take on what happens if Astral turn out to be a bad steward of uv is interesting: “[…] having seen the code and what uv is doing, even in the worst possible future this is a very forkable and maintainable thing. I believe that even in case Astral shuts down or were to do something incredibly dodgy licensing wise, the community would be better off than before uv existed.”
https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/112999662589160667
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@andreagrandi yes, there’s absolutely a risk involved in the Python community adopting a tool from a company like this - see the recent conda licensing stuff for a recent example! uv appears to be really good tech, under a clean open source license (two, actually: its dual Apache 2 and MIT) Is it worth the risk? That’s the million+ dollar question |
@simon what if uv is the nose and nobody is looking at the Moon yet?
I'm pretty sure their next product will be a PyPi alternative. Then they will add proprietary stuff. This will fragment the market and devs/companies will have to release Python packages to two places instead of one. Then it will become paid only etc... (one can only imagine the possibilities).
I'm not saying this will 100% happens, but it's definitely possible.
uv alone, is not an issue.