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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by acjohnson55 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:21AM (#17818847)
For the Redis example, how does this apply to past versions of Redis? Are we going to see a MariaDB-like fork?
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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by aequitas on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:33AM (#17818937)
As explained by antirez[1] Redis itself wil remain BSD and his own modules will remain open source licensed. Only the modules developed by Redis Labs will have this clause. So no change for future or past versions of Redis.

[1] http://antirez.com/news/120

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by jwilk on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:35AM (#17819422)
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818647
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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by cntlzw on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:30AM (#17818913)
From my understanding the commons Clause can only attach itself to new patches. The old code keeps the original license without attachment.
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