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 ge

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.