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   Dragan Espenschied (despens@post.lurk.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 19:16:52 JST Dragan Espenschied

   The redis project is changing the license for their software away from what is considered open source because they feel their work is being exploited by cloud providers, in particular AWS. Many redis users now announced they're going to switch to another software like memcached that are still open source. But perhaps everyone should support redis instead? Or ask the memcached project to also change their license?

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 19:16:50 JST Sexy Moon

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     @despens Libre license requirement is non-negotiable if I'm going to use it. Perhaps they could switch to AGPL, cloud companies won't touch that.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 19:45:05 JST SuperDicq

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     @despens@post.lurk.org As much as I despise AWS I do not see why AWS should not be allowed to exploit Redis just like everyone else?
     
     Exploitation is not a bad thing, the meaning of "exploitation" is simply "to utilize something (for selfish purposes)", but it does not necessarily mean at "at the expense of someone else".
     
     I fail the see how the usage of Redis on AWS hurts the Redis project. I'm serious, you should explain to me how AWS is hurting Redis?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 19:48:31 JST SuperDicq

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     • Sexy Moon

     @Moon@shitposter.club @despens@post.lurk.org Yes, formerly Redis used the 3-clause BSD license, which is a pushover license.
     
     The AGPL is a perfect license for software like this and requires the big cloud companies to publish their changes, contributing back to the project.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 19:53:26 JST SuperDicq

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     @despens@post.lurk.org The reasoning is literally "we want to make more money".
     
     Sure in their corpospeak press release they call it "being sustainable", but that's what it means, they are greedy and want more money.

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     Dragan Espenschied (despens@post.lurk.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 19:53:27 JST Dragan Espenschied

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq Since I did not have any part in the redis license change, I guess you need to look at the reasoning of the redis project.