Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Your comments were interesting, kronat. My responses are below:

kronat wrote:

I believe there are cases in which maybe the freedom 2 and 3 gives too much power to who is just exploiting the work done by others.

This seems more of a general criticism of non-copyleft licensing, not of the four freedoms. I agree with you that licenses that fail to ensure freedom 2 and 3 in perpetuity generate other types of problematic power imbalances, but that particular issue seems orthogonal.

But I don't want to forbid the using of BSD license, or making defamatory statements against who is using it, just because I don't understand it or I do not believe in it. I will, more honestly, avoid contributing to projects which are distributed under BSD license.

Neither do I. I've licensed some of my own copyrights under 2-Clause BSD before. I have also not made defamatory statements about anyone; I criticized bad policy and pointed out manipulative strategies in use to advocate for that policy.

I believe who created the software and who maintains it has more power than who arrives later and make a contribution, but I don't see this reflected in any license.

The goal of copyleft is to give equal rights to the original author and all later contributors and users. No copyleft license is perfect, and if you have ideas for how to improve copyleft licenses to address some of its flaws, Fontana's coypleft-next project might be a good place to do that.

there are roughly two passages in which you state your opinion in the way Catholics politicians want to make abortion illegal for everyone, Catholics politicians want to make abortion illegal for everyone, regardless of the reasons, just because they believe that the right way is the only one they think.

The analogy is not apt nor accurate. I did not argue that it should be illegal for Redis or anyone else to publish software under the Commons Clause. I said that it is bad policy, and exploits a power relationship granted by existing copyright laws in a way that I find inappropriate and bad for society. I have never argued that proprietary software should be illegal. Even though I'm morally opposed to proprietary software, I don't think (e.g.) changing copyright law to only allow FOSS licensing would be successful in eradicating proprietary business models.