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Re:Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License Again by iceninenines on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:49PM (#19222431)
GPLv3 prevents TiVo, AGPL prevents AWS.

Puppet has an Apache licensed community edition, and they make money just fine. RedHat, Canonical, and so on.

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Re:Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License Again by anth_anm on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:07PM (#19222504)
AGPL doesn't prevent AWS, AGPL forces AWS to be open with their changes.

Which I think is better. You might not enable FOSS devs to make much off their work, but you at least force companies to contribute.

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Re:Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License Again by kemitchell on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:11PM (#19228688)
> AGPL forces AWS to be open with their changes.

Unfortunately, AGPL is full of loopholes, which are emerging now, because large enterprises with access to specialist legal talent are putting the microscope on licenses for projects like AGPL MongoDB.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up.h...

MongoDB's counsel mentioned this directly in their statement submitting SSPL to OSI.

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Re:Redis Labs Changes Its Open-Source License Again by benatkin on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:06PM (#19222777)
I think AWS would still rather do what they did with DocumentDB.
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