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Even the most restrictive FS licenses like GPL will not prevent me from selling consulting services around the product licensed under it.
If you combine this clause with a Free Software license, it sounds to me like it is no longer FS. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
To be fair, Redis itself still remains BSD licensed. The other modules for Redis developed by RedisLabs [1] are under the new Commons Clause license. The big 3 cloud providers provide Redis as a cache service and don't use these modules anyway, so their offerings will remain unaffected. [1] https://redislabs.com/community/oss-projects/
I wonder if it will follow the path of Android: start with a huge open source base and some propriety bits on top, and as they go on, move more and more of the functionality to the propriety part until the open source part is useless by itself.
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Pragmatically, this is still open source software, because the software source is freely available. It might not be Open Source Software now, perhaps according to some zealots like RMS et al. > According to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), open source licensing cannot limit the scope of a license – it only applies conditions to exercising it. With this model, no one can stop you from doing whatever you want with the…
> Pragmatically, this is still open source software, No, it's free of charge shared-source software. The OSI and FSF open source and free software definitions are virtually identical despite their very different philosophy because any less freedom than they call for quickly collapses the benefits of the arrangement.
> Today, most cloud providers offer Redis as a managed service over their infrastructure and enjoy huge income from software that was not developed by them. Redis’ permissive BSD open source license allows them to do so legally, but this must be changed.
Any software with a restrictive license of any kind will eventually be replaced by software with a more liberal license.
As acknowledged in the announcement, adding restrictions is against the spirit of open-source. No exceptions.
Any software with a restrictive license of any kind will eventually be replaced by software with a more liberal license.
This is the license below. I'm pretty sure this is going to be vague enough to cause problems with a ton of legal departments. They want to be the only ones hosting it and the the only ones you call in to help with it. I get where the Redis folks are coming from, but this is basically a nail in the product and guarantees a fork if they don't turn back. === 8 The Software is provided to you by the Licensor under the L…
>substantially Wow, that's a legal landmine. Is there even a legal standard or consensus for what "substantial" means?
This is the license below. I'm pretty sure this is going to be vague enough to cause problems with a ton of legal departments. They want to be the only ones hosting it and the the only ones you call in to help with it. I get where the Redis folks are coming from, but this is basically a nail in the product and guarantees a fork if they don't turn back. === 8 The Software is provided to you by the Licensor under the L…