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Re:Commons Clause by macspoofing on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:21AM (#17817649)
>Happy to answer questions here

You didn't answer many (any) questions.

Here's mine, why is this needed? Redis could have adopted AGPL as the base license which would have effectively prevented any cloud vendors from using it as a manged service. For those companies, Redis could have provided a paid proprietary option.

Why even bother with this?

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Re:Commons Clause by zwily on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:54AM (#17818017)
AGPL would prevent a ton of companies from using Redis at all. A surprising number of big companies flat out ban all AGPL code.
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Re:Commons Clause by icebraining on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:11AM (#17818774)
The paid proprietary option wouldn't be AGPL'd.
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Re:Commons Clause by macspoofing on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:51PM (#17820045)
As it stands 'Common Clause' is a poison pill for every business. It won't get past any legal department.
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