Redis is no longer free software

Posted Mar 22, 2024 16:05 UTC (Fri) by jrtc27 (subscriber, #107748)
In reply to: Redis is no longer free software by aragilar
Parent article: Redis is no longer free software

No they haven't. They've added a new REDISCONTRIBUTIONS.txt to comply with the BSD-3-Clause requirements.

Redis is no longer free software

Posted Mar 22, 2024 19:12 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> They've added a new REDISCONTRIBUTIONS.txt to comply with the BSD-3-Clause requirements.

Except that new file doesn't tell which file is licensed from whom and on which terms. The whole point of BSD license is that one sentence: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Which means they did the only thing that Salvatore Sanfilippo (and others) haven't given them the right to do.

And if you include the fact that they clearly have done that to ensure that Salvatore Sanfilippo (and others) wouldn't be able to do anything in the future… it would be interesting to see what will happen, I guess.