Redis’ License is BSD and will remain BSD (2018)

Posted Mar 22, 2024 7:54 UTC (Fri) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: Redis’ License is BSD and will remain BSD (2018) by Wol
Parent article: Redis is no longer free software

> If the licence does not grant explicit permission to relicence (and BSD does not grant permission) then you can't.

Indeed. You can grab some popcorn and check the comments on the relicensing PR: https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13157

Redis’ License is BSD and will remain BSD (2018)

Posted Mar 22, 2024 22:33 UTC (Fri) by himi (subscriber, #340) [Link]

Ooh, a quick scroll through that thread and I found this: https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13157#issuecomment-20... - a contribution where the copyright is explicitly held by the contributor's employer, Red Hat. Also a bunch of comments about contributions from AWS, Alibaba . . .

For all that the BSD licence is pretty hard to violate, it looks like this might be one case where it ends up having some serious force behind it. At the very least a lot more work to make doubly sure that every i has been dotted and t crossed, and possibly more.