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Redis is no longer OSS (fosstodon.org)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Well interpretability of a non standard license is problematic, but that's true for any kind of new license. By that argument we should oppose any kind of change, positive or not.

Imo this change is positive. We should actively be against corporate leeching.

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    It's been 5 years. I don't think they're going to change the license to allow distributions to distribute MongoDB more easily.

    We should actively be against corporate leeching.

    In a world without free software, Amazon will build their own proprietary software for servers that is better than everyone else's, and will be in the same position. At least with Redis, multiple employees of AWS were core maintainers for Redis. It isn't like Amazon didn't contribute anything back. Now that it's non-free, they'll just fork it. Again.

    All this really accomplishes is making licensing a headache for everybody, which is the main reason people and organizations use free software.

    I think free software developers should be able to make money from their software, and money from working on their software. I also think everyone else should be able to, too.

    To put it another way, open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation.

    Additionally, Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic. Redis doesn't belong to Redis, either.

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