Redis license change
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https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
IANAL: They move from BSD to SSPL/Source available.
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See Elasticsearch, Hashicorp, etc.
Seems to be the future of successful projects that started as open-source and that have been exploited heavily by the likes of Amazon, Google, and other cloud providers. -
@necrevistonnezr said in Redis license change:
See Elasticsearch, Hashicorp, etc.
Seems to be the future of successful projects that started as open-source and that have been exploited heavily by the likes of Amazon, Google, and other cloud providers.What do you mean by "exploited" here? I just want to know what sorts of things they are doing.
"Open Core" a.k.a. "Fauxpen Source" was long bewailed by RMS. He calls it "disgusting".
I was just pondering this topic actually, looking at a lot of models coming out for AI. So many a not using Free licences, it is quite a disappointment.
Think about that famous photo of the bullet going through the apple or the National Geographic cover of the mountain girl with the eyes. Ever since those days, anybody with a camera (and there have been many!) has opted for non-Free licencing of their pictures, in the forlorn dream of hitting the jackpot and making bank on a photo like that. All that content, which never really had the remotest chance of earning money, was non-Free and basically excluded from use in our culture.
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is the future of open-source redis with Valkey ? https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
the Linux Foundation announced its intent to form Valkey, an open source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community -
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/6bf2063136effa1e/ had a good overview of the situation
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@LoudLemur said in Redis license change:
@necrevistonnezr said in Redis license change:
See Elasticsearch, Hashicorp, etc.
Seems to be the future of successful projects that started as open-source and that have been exploited heavily by the likes of Amazon, Google, and other cloud providers.What do you mean by "exploited" here? I just want to know what sorts of things they are doing.
They take free open source software and offer ready-made SaaS instances against a fee - without paying the software creators a penny.
See some background at https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws -
I saw today that Fedora Linux is targeting deprecation of Redis[1] in favour of Valkey due to licensing. That’s not entirely surprising given Fedora’s ethos on non-free software.
As Cloudron only officially supports Ubuntu, and I don’t know what Canonical’s plans are wrt Redis, I don’t expect what Fedora does is a guidance to the Cloudron team. However, given that Redis is a core component for Cloudron I’m wondering if there are any plans to move to Valkey, as Fedora Linux 41 plans to.
