REDIS changes its open-source license again
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Redis Labs, fresh off its latest funding round, today announced a change to how it licenses its Redis Modules. This may not sound like a big deal, but in the world of open-source projects, licensing is currently a big issue. That’s because organizations like Redis, MongoDB, Confluent and others have recently introduced new licenses that make it harder for their competitors to take their products and sell them as rebranded services without contributing back to the community (and most of these companies point directly at AWS as the main offender here).
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So, the goal is to force these guys start contributing, right?
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@wrx7m said in REDIS changes its open-source license again:
So, the goal is to force these guys start contributing, right?
Goal is to make money. We assume.
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Problem is, like MongoDB, it's not considered open source any longer.
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@scottalanmiller So, they closed it when changing their license agreement?
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@wrx7m said in REDIS changes its open-source license again:
@scottalanmiller So, they closed it when changing their license agreement?
Yes, they moved from an open source license to a "very open, but not technically open source" license.
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Maybe their website isn't up to date yet?
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Looks like it is only some modules...
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@scottalanmiller said in REDIS changes its open-source license again:
Looks like it is only some modules...
This is all the previous change was also.
