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>I don't really understand the blowback when a project tries to monetize, Your starting premise of "monetization" being the issue is incorrect ... which then c
by jasode 2y ago
>I don't really understand the blowback when a project tries to monetize,
Your starting premise of "monetization" being the issue is incorrect ... which then causes the misunderstanding of the blowback.
Instead, the blowback is about changing the license as I outlined before :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951361
It annoys the community when Redis starts out with a permissive license that attracts outside contributors including employees from Tencent+Alibaba+Amazon+Bytedance+etc who collectively commit more code than Redis employees [1] ... and then later change the license which destroys the goodwill that attracted the outside contributors in the first place.
[1] code stats since 7.0.0 release: https://lwn.net/Articles/966631/#:~:text=Top%20changeset%20contributions%20by%20employer https://lwn.net/Articles/966631/#:~:text=Top%20changeset%20c...
- SmellTheGlove 2y agoNo, I understand that changing the license is the issue drawing the reaction. But it looks like they're changing it in order to monetize. > It annoys the community when Redis starts out with a permissive license that attracts outside contributors including employees from Tencent+Alibaba+Amazon+Bytedance+etc who collectively commit more code than Redis employees [1] ... and then later change the license which destroys the goodwill that attracted the outside contributors in the first place. This is a very fair point.