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Re:Commons Clause by slavak on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:51AM (#17816395)
> Not true. You have to remember that the new license only applies to Redis going forward.

At the risk of repeating myself all over this thread, I feel the need to emphasize that the new license does _not_ apply to Redis proper, which, in the words of the post, "is, and always will remain, an open source BSD license."

Full disclosure: Am a Redis Labs employee, although not here in any official capacity.

Re:Commons Clause by bigiain on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:06AM (#17816913)
Sure. The same argument applies to the "enterprise modules", which until today everybody assumed would always remain under an open source BSD license.

Your boss has bait-and-switched once now. That's enough for everybody who cares to start risk managing future similar behaviour.

Re:Commons Clause by ragall on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:29AM (#17819388)
I'm very curious to see if this stands in court, since "consulting" can be considered similar to repairing and there are laws in many countries that restrict a manufacturer's right to limit repairs and who performs them.