The race to replace Redis

I really don't see how any of this is in reply to what I said, on spite of the citations...

BSD/MIT and other permissive licenses allow anyone to do almost anything with the software and most of the recent (and more ancient) license changes we've seen all come down to "oh shit, big companies make big buck based on what we do without contributing back enough to ensure we are sustainable". Whatever added value those company may or may not provide is irrelevant.

The software is not irrelevant when it's part of the service. Try to repeat yourself gas, or breaks, are irrelevant when buying a car and see how far it goes.

Those people just realised it's hard to build a business model where all the work you do can directly be integrated downstream. Downstream thus becomes strictly superior the day they provide anything at all. That's not a good situation to be in when you try to earn a living for that work.