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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 21:50:45 JST Drew DeVault

   Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis®

   https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-fork/

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 21:59:36 JST 翠星石

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     @drewdevault >LGPLv3-only instead of LGPLv3-or-later
     What are you trying to do there?
     
     Have you at least assigned a proxy to decide on future versions?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:08:59 JST 翠星石

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     @drewdevault You're setting yourself up for future license incompatibilities for no reason.
     
     No license is ever perfect and so every license really needs an upgrade mechanism when a bug is found.
     
     
     The FSF is the one organization you can trust to not make future versions of the license proprietary - the current license is designed not to allow that either.
     
     When it comes to license upgrades, all upgrades from the {L}GPLv2 to {L}GPLv3 have been clarifications and further exceptions for activities deemed useful for free software and I have no doubt that the {L}GPLv3 to {L}GPLv4 upgrade (if required) will be any difference.
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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:09:00 JST Drew DeVault

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki it will not be changed

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:09:37 JST 翠星石

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     • Simon Josefsson
     @jas All versions of the LGPL are copyleft licenses - although only the freedom of the library itself is defended.
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     Simon Josefsson (jas@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:09:39 JST Simon Josefsson

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     @drewdevault Nice! However LGPL is not generelly considered a copyleft license. Did you approach Debian/fedora/Guix/etc package maintainers?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:15:06 JST SuperDicq

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     @drewdevault@fosstodon.org Why Codeberg and not Sourcehut?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:18:32 JST SuperDicq

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     @drewdevault@fosstodon.org What happened to "Sourcehut: No One OutSources The Hut"?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 23:04:19 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Arcaik

     @Arcaik @drewdevault and Redat is right there

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     Arcaik (arcaik@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 23:04:21 JST Arcaik

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     @drewdevault Nice!

     The name tho… I already say Reddit every time I want to say Redis, this will not help :D

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 00:49:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Matthew Martin

     @mistersql this is incredibly basic free software legal fundamentals, my friend. This is not in the least bit a novel construction.

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 00:49:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Matthew Martin

     @mistersql you might want to just, like, read a software license once in a while

     Here's the one that applies to Redis OSS:

     https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/e64d91c37105bc2e23816b6f81b9ffc5e5d99801/COPYING

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 00:49:54 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Matthew Martin

     @mistersql this is explained in the blog post, see "Wait, how did you change the license? Are you allowed to do that?"

     No you cannot just put it into the public domain

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     Matthew Martin (mistersql@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 00:49:54 JST Matthew Martin

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     @drewdevault I'll believe what the lawyers say. If the project fails, no one cares, not even the lawyers. If the project is picked up by a SAAS and is used in a money making venture, it will be litigated.

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     Matthew Martin (mistersql@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 00:49:55 JST Matthew Martin

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     @drewdevault Can a fork really pick a different license? If you can, why not relicense as public domain and free all the code?