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The race to replace Redis

Posted May 22, 2024 15:50 UTC (Wed) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: The race to replace Redis by immibis
Parent article: The race to replace Redis

To be fair, when I MIT things instead of GPLing them, it's because I figure that MITing them is the lesser of two evils when the alternative is "Sorry, I'm not accepting contributions because I want the freedom to be able to use my creations for work in non-GPL contexts and I don't want to be 'that CLA guy'."

(i.e. I do ideologically agree with the GPL... but I gotta eat too and MITing is less of a dick move than GPL plus requiring copyright assignment because it's more equitable if other contributors get the same rights for commercial reuse.)

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The race to replace Redis

Posted May 22, 2024 17:23 UTC (Wed) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (2 responses)

What problem do you have with using GPL in your work? Do you only take contracts where the customer is clueless enough NOT to require source code of the creation?

The race to replace Redis

Posted May 22, 2024 18:42 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

> Do you only take contracts where the customer is clueless enough NOT to require source code of the creation?

Please READ what the GP wrote. Don't read into it what he very clearly did NOT say ...

(BTW, I've said it before, I probably won't bother with GPL for most of my code because, you know what, it's a waste of space sticking it on stuff that it doesn't work on.)

Cheers,
Wol

The race to replace Redis

Posted May 25, 2024 6:51 UTC (Sat) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

That was a question, Neil.