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That is allowed and fine. What you can't do is, if you are Amazon, release "AWS Sdejt" which is simply a managed wrapper around Redis.
by googlryas 8y ago
That is allowed and fine. What you can't do is, if you are Amazon, release "AWS Sdejt" which is simply a managed wrapper around Redis.
- krschultz 8y agoWhy is that allowed and fine? I read this clause to explicitly prohibit that behavior.
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- lozenge 8y agoCan you explain how you interpreted the license to say that's fine? Isn't the value of the service "substantially" its ability to run redis? And isn't the package manager a form of distributing redis? (Referring to the shared source modules, not the BSD licensed part)
- bigiain 8y agoThis is the problem (at least for me) - the wording is vague and open to interpretation, which means if it ever needs to be clarified, it'll need expensive lawyers to get that done. A reasonable man would say "Of course the value of, say, Digital Ocean's service is not "substantially its ability to run redis" - even though any linux vm customer can run their OS choice's version of 'apt-get install redis'". But we do not live in a world were a "reasonable man's interpretation" is an acceptable risk-mitigation for a business. I'm pretty sure there'll be other people who, like me, are considering how best to risk manage the use of redis going forward...
- lozenge 8y agoLuckily the core redis server is still open source. It looks like they've taken the nginx plus business model and combined it with shared source.