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A comment on Commons Clause.

Re:Commons Clause by mark_element on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:01PM (#17814639)
I don't like the naming. "Apache 2.0 with commons clause" is not the right way to describe this licensing paradigm. It is fundamentally no longer Apache 2.0. I appreciate the motivation, but think it would better serve everyone to just make a new "Redis License" that describes the terms.
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Re:Commons Clause by incompatible on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:56PM (#17815919)
The name is kind of implying that it's somehow related to Creative Commons. I assume the latter organization actually has nothing to do with it?
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Re:Commons Clause by paulddraper on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:42AM (#17816588)
Yeah... I'm interested to know why they picked they been.
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Re:Commons Clause by bigiain on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:21AM (#17816971)
I wonder if the Apache trademark allows them to call it that?

Calling your chicken "KFC with different herbs and spices!" would get you stamped down hard _very_ quickly...

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