I think there are two important factors here that the author overlooked: - the vast, vast majority of end users will get their software from a package manager,

I think there are two important factors here that the author overlooked: - the vast, vast majority of end users will get their software from a package manager, and for something as relatively feature stable (for what the vast majority of people use it for) as redis/clones, there's a good chance it's coming from a distro repo. Practically no one is installing it by building from source. The licence change means it won't be (at least new versions) in those distro repos any more, but the direct fork and spiritual successor (valkey) likely will be, and in some cases valkey will likely take over the redis name in those repos. - this isn't the first time Redis the company has pulled this kind of trick, and I think it's foolish to believe the community is going to hang around and wait for the next time they say "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further"