You only need to do that if you operate it as a service that you sell or give away to others (rather than just running your own internal redis instance) So yes

You only need to do that if you operate it as a service that you sell or give away to others (rather than just running your own internal redis instance) So yes, this basically prohibits anyone but redis from operating it as a service, unless you write your own operating system for it to run on. (Although presumably they will sell you licences or similar to operate it as a service)