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Glad this was posted on HN because Roi's work is outstanding. I see there is a thread about the license here, you know my position. I think in short that: * It
by antirez 8y ago
Glad this was posted on HN because Roi's work is outstanding. I see there is a thread about the license here, you know my position. I think in short that:
* It makes sense for MongoDB / Redis Labs to change licenses of what they produce if they want / need.
* In the case however of the Redis core, it's BSD, no way it will be changed. But for modules produced by Redis Labs, it's their choice and there is something to do against the cloud providers exploit.
* I don't like the OSS license + Common Clause combo, but instead I like more to rename the sum of the two, like "Redis Labs Sharing License". We'll see if the company will move in that direction, I'm advising in that way.
* I don't like the attempt at getting things like SSPL OSI approved.
However, I want to ask if you would be more comfortable if RedisGraph would be licensed under SSPL instead of Apache 2 + Commons Clause. I don't have the power to change the license but I can advise, and for Redis Labs I suspect it is practically the same because the goal is to let users do what they want like-if-it-was-open-source, but stop cloud providers.
- dvirsky 8y ago> * I don't like the attempt at getting things like SSPL OSI approved. Why?
- zzzcpan 8y agoYeah, no reason to not like that, since SSPL fits OSI own definition of open source.
- antirez 8y agoI had already issues with the GPL v2/3 concept of linking and the fact that the project linking to a GPL license should also be under a compatible license. To turn provisioning, that is just using normal system APIs, into a form of linking is IMHO wrong and no longer open source. I wrote a whole thread on Twitter with the details btw.
- gregwebs 8y agoYes, just change the license name, please! MongoDB, CockroachDB, and others are doing something similar and people aren't getting angry about it because they aren't calling it "Apache ...".
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