Redis is no longer free software

Posted Mar 21, 2024 23:19 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Redis is no longer free software by AlecTavi
Parent article: Redis is no longer free software

> Inevitably, if the software is less-exploitable by private entities, it will be less-adopted by them. This is another tension, between private exploitation and forcing public benefit through the legal system.

And it's not a zero sum game. Do you want a small slice of a large cake, or a large slice of a small cake? The problem with trying to force public benefit is you are then likely to have pretty much all of a very small cake. Go the other way, and your small slice is likely to be much larger than the small cake.

Cheers,
Wol

Redis is no longer free software

Posted Mar 22, 2024 16:33 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (guest, #10998) [Link]

That's a massive oversimplification. GCC and the Objective C frontend is an older case where the GPL caused the Objective C frontend to be available to everyone. Linux, which became a very large cake, has had decent returns from commercial users; BSD seems to have had relatively little, with the exception of some end-of-life stuff tossed out. Even then, e.g. AdvFS (from BSD-based OSF/1) was released as GPL-2, not BSD, for use with Linux.

Working with giants like AWS and Azure is hard; they have every intent on being compatible with Redis only so long as they have to. They want you locked into Amazon Elasticache or Azure's version. Can a BSD version keep even a tiny slice of cake against that? I'd suspect Redis is going to drift into oblivion as open source users drop it and AWS & friends ignore or duplicate any changes.