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I can see their side. GPL was called copyleft for a reason, a nod to copyright. It's a copyright restriction which limits redistribution to certain terms. Cl
by snarfy 8y ago
I can see their side. GPL was called copyleft for a reason, a nod to copyright. It's a copyright restriction which limits redistribution to certain terms.
Cloud providers do redistribute. It runs on their servers. They do not have to honor copyright restrictions. They can make proprietary modifications and keep them, and they do. They might be honoring the letter of the license, but certainly not the spirit of it.
- TimothyBJacobs 8y agoDon't we have the AGPL for this purpose to require them to contribute back their proprietary changes. As others have pointed out, if this was only about the modifications they would have used AGPL. Instead, and giving the clauses about consulting, it seems more like they are concerned about money than the health of the ecosystem.
- gregmac 8y agoThe Redis Labs modules were AGPL, they moved from that to Apache + Common Clause[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032192721308594176 https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032192721308594176
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Don't we have the AGPL for this purpose to require them to contribute back their proprietary changes. That doesn't help upstream monetize; this is entirely about money, not reciprocal contributions of code.
- TimothyBJacobs 8y agoThat was the point I was trying to make. Guess I didn't word it well :)
- tree_of_item 8y agoMoney is a part of the health of the ecosystem.