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Thats what killed Redis, good on them for warning about it. https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/22/Commons-clause-will-destroy-open-source.html https://drewdevault

• cpburns2009 8y ago
  Isn't the "commons clause" only on a few modules? Redis itself is still BSD. See: https://redislabs.com/community/licenses/ https://redislabs.com/community/licenses/
  • jkaplowitz 8y ago
    They failed so badly at the PR around this change that many people overlooked that fact. They still inflicted damage on their reputation. It's kind of like how the Internet was left with the incorrect impression that Google removed "don't be evil" from their Code of Conduct. (It's still there, now at the end instead of the beginning after a rewording. The new parent company Alphabet has a different but similar slogan; both apply to Google. This is separate question, of course, from any more concrete discussion of Google's current ethics than what their code of conduct says.)
  • fmajid 8y ago
    Redis’ core is still BSD-licensee but Salvatore Sanfilippo transferred the IP rights to Redis Labs, which means there is nothing to stop Redis Labs from pulling another bait-and-switch and making Redis itself non-free. http://antirez.com/news/121 http://antirez.com/news/121 I think all companies using Redis should make contingency plans for when that happens. I’m afraid forking Redis will likely prove necessary given Redis Labs’ record of questionable behavior.