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Yeah, that really grinds my gears too. It especially bugs me when company blogs call out “abuse” when they only exist as a company because others gave them the permissions needed t…

There are different FOSS communities that hold different values. I come from the copyleft camp because I want to advance Software Freedom objectives for end-users. Others are more …

AWS never offered the AGPLv3 licensed version of the MongoDB server as part of any managed service. There were large cloud providers in China that _did_ offer MongoDB as a service.…

> Because a big company like Amazon has produced almost no open source work This may have been true a decade ago, but things are quite different now. > compared to how much it has …

The LWN article is examining the 976 commits made after the 7.0.0 release. I don't think you had any commits during that time? As is typical for software projects, early authors wi…

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. In theory, one would not be able to offer a combined program under other licenses (in particular, RSALv2 and SSPLv1), as th…

RMS was not convinced that the Affero clause was a good idea as a general rule, though he approved the Affero-sponsored fork of the GPL that created AGPLv1. Hence, he did not suppo…

This exchange makes me sad. I know we can do better. I don't understand why so many people think that it's impossible to have open source in your heart while working for a big comp…

Why? They can already just copy the code they want from Valkey, since Valkey is 3 clause BSD... But maybe Valkey should switch to GPLv3 instead to correct this imbalance. https://g…

If you use the latest versions of Redis, you are benefiting from the continued efforts of the Valkey development community. [1] This is Open Source working well. Unfortunately, the…

My personal opinion: we shouldn't let Google's bad policy poison our brains. The people who wrote that policy had their reasons for taking this position. It might have been the rig…

Disclosure: I work for Amazon. AWS never offered a service based on the AGPLv3 version of the MongoDB server. Therefore the change of license terms to SSPLv1 was not directly cause…

> PS: There are exceptions like postgres but there aren't enough of them at that scale. We need more communities and projects like PostgreSQL. Why can’t Valkey be another one?

There is more Free Software produced today than ever before, even if some firms are deciding they no longer want to produce it. There are far more who are continuing to add to the …

The needs of those who want to capture the majority of the value they create when they author digital goods like software haven’t been the concern of either the Free Software movem…

The two previous members of the Redis core team, along with other active contributors, are gathering in a different place: https://x.com/reconditerose/status/1771237000592642274

The article ignores that the two previous core team members that didn’t work for Redis Ltd, along with other active contributors, are gathering around a different project. They jus…

Disclosures: I work for Amazon, but my positions as a long time Free Software advocate and copyleft supporter are my own. I do not speak for Amazon here. I served on the board of d…

On the “downstream” side of this equation (managed services), the goal is to build a business that delights customers to the point where they part with their money to enjoy it. The…

No, the goal was to make Redis better for its community, which has positive downstream effects for everyone (users, Redis as a service providers-including Redis Ltd, etc.) And thes…

The SSPLv1 has fatal flaws that were identified by the open source community during its review for OSI approval. Some of those flaws were attempted to be addressed in the SSPLv2 dr…

The 3 clause BSD gives all the permissions that are needed for someone to add restrictions via their own license terms. Licenses like the GPL come with an obligation that one not a…

We’ve done that. See one example in a sibling reply.

You write as if you have all the facts, but I doubt you do. There are services with varying partnership terms, and there have been services launched with an intent to build long te…

That may be true if a codebase is licensed under the GPL and has a diverse copyright ownership. But the 3 clause BSD is not that. 3 clause BSD gives everyone permission to use it i…