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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:40:30 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   Oh that is dirty, redis only adding a CLA with the license change.
   
   https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/0b34396924eca4edc524469886dc5be6c77ec4ed
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:47:27 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @glitch That's also what I'd think, BSD requires to keep the copyright notice + clauses with the software, and they threw that away.
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     Glitch (glitch@pl.glitch.pm)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:47:28 JST Glitch

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     @lanodan Wouldn't that be infringement, as far as I can tell they're stripping out the old BSD text entirely.
     
     Which as far as I understand it, they can't do unless they have all contributors with significant patches in the current codebase agreeing to it.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:48:31 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @sjw Redis is no longer a Free Software project: https://lwn.net/Articles/966133/
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     Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed: (sjw@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:48:32 JST Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:

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     @lanodan what happened?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:52:48 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @sjw Going for https://codeberg.org/redict/redict myself, there are other forks and implementations but usually with a lot of changes and so possible compatibility issues.
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     Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed: (sjw@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:52:49 JST Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:

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     @lanodan well that's sad
     
     So what's the free fork of redis going to be called?
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     Glitch (glitch@pl.glitch.pm)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:53:42 JST Glitch

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     @lanodan Yeah. In most other cases of hostile relicensing by companies (a lot of GPL products... It's rare to see this with a BSD license), they usually do an extensive amount of rounding up all relevant contributors first to try and get the CLA signed/rewrite the patches of those that are unreachable before pulling this trick.
     
     It's normally a process that takes on the order of 2 to 3 years, not one git commit. Even if they'd prioritize SSPL for all new contribs, they'd need approval to remove the old license from the code.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 01:09:56 JST iced depresso

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     @sjw @lanodan https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB