Redis is open source again • Hacker News Board

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by Xss3 » Thu, May 08, 2025, 5:42 PM UTC

mfitton wrote: post #691

scargrillo wrote: post #510

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This breakdown hits hard because it’s not just about business models — it’s about trust. Open source succeeded because it created shared public infrastructure. But hyperscalers turned it into extraction infrastructure: mine the code, skip the stewardship. The result? We’ve confused “open” with “free-for-the-powerful.” It’s time to stop pretending licenses are enough. This is about incentives, governance, and resilien…

Testing my LLM-detection abilities. Did you write this yourself? Or is this LLM produced? The phrasings stick out to me as super GPT-like.

The em dash is a sign

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by Xss3 » Thu, May 08, 2025, 5:45 PM UTC

jpc0 wrote: post #621

amrocha wrote: post #480

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You’re living in theoretical fantasy land. Yeah, it’d be great if everything was open source and everyone was happy. But that’s not really what happens. Redis and Elastic are popular exactly because there’s entire companies behind it constantly maintaining it, securing it, and adding features. If you want use open source software at your job that’s a hard requirement. No, you can’t use “MySillyKeyValueCache” that Tim…

> Companies cost money to run. Google and AWS exploit open source work for profit, and don’t contribute back enough to ensure its support. I don’t understand this take, if Google/AWS/Microsoft decide to host your service and some vulnerabilities are discovered then you got free Security Research done, your product would either have remained vulnerable or someone else would have filed the same bug. You own the code so…

You confuse open source with a permissive open license.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by eGQjxkKF6fif » Thu, May 08, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #345

eGQjxkKF6fif wrote: post #331

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Do it. I'm thinking of making one for node.

Already started. python3 branch. Claude removed all my nice idiomatic conditional expressions, but the (few) tests I have for the server already pass, and the aioserver is coming next :)

Nice. Godspeed to you sir. I'll keep a gander on it.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by anonfordays » Wed, May 14, 2025, 1:58 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #168

This is disappointing. The AGPL is a nonfree (and nonsensical) license. The fact that the FSF wants a EULA but can’t have a EULA without violating Freedom 0 doesn’t make the AGPL suddenly logically sound. marcan has written about it in more detail than I care to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30044019 Stop using the AGPL. It violates the basic principles of free software. The ability to run a SaaS company with…

You should stop imagining things like "the AGPL is non free."

The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Li...

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by anonfordays » Wed, May 14, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #791

codeguro wrote: post #790

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A special endpoint e.g. /about or /license that lists the terms of the AGPL and a link to the source code would suffice. That's not difficult or unreasonable at all.

Where do you add that to redis, which does not have a HTTP server, and what makes this endpoint "prominent"?

>(if your version supports such interaction)

Put it on your website if redis does not support HTTP. The license clearly covers this.