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The primary target here seems to be cloud hosting companies that provide Redis-as-a-Service. But the seemingly wide definition of Sell, including how consulting

The primary target here seems to be cloud hosting companies that provide Redis-as-a-Service. But the seemingly wide definition of Sell, including how consulting/support services are mention makes me confused. Can I as a software developer working as a consultant, still create an app for customers which uses Redis with modules under Commons Clause? ...the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software. For purposes of the foregoing, “Sell” means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software... One of the nice things about MIT/BSD/Apache over GPL/LPGL was the ability to use a software without needing to involve lawyers. This might just have gone out the window...

oliwarner 8y ago
Yeah it's awful. But in answer to your question: Maybe. It looks a lot more forgiving if you flip it over from "what do they say I can do?" to "what could I get away with?". They'd have to find you first. Then prove you were paid. Then they'd have to prove that use-case was substantially dependent on their software. Unless your employer went to Redis an announces all this, their ability to go after consulting/freelance developers is very limited. I think this is, as others have said, a cash-grab at the cloud market who advertise these sorts of services publicly. They're easy targets.
- aequitas 8y ago
  "what could I get away with" Seems like an awful thing to build your business around.
peterlk 8y ago
> a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software This phrase is where the legal battles will be fought

oliwarner 8y ago

Yeah it's awful. But in answer to your question: Maybe. It looks a lot more forgiving if you flip it over from "what do they say I can do?" to "what could I get away with?". They'd have to find you first. Then prove you were paid. Then they'd have to prove that use-case was substantially dependent on their software. Unless your employer went to Redis an announces all this, their ability to go after consulting/freelance developers is very limited. I think this is, as others have said, a cash-grab at the cloud market who advertise these sorts of services publicly. They're easy targets.

aequitas 8y ago
"what could I get away with" Seems like an awful thing to build your business around.

peterlk 8y ago

> a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software This phrase is where the legal battles will be fought