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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by ptx on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:36AM (#23690451)
How does copyleft relate to BDFL-style governance? Python, for example, had a BDFL until recently but isn't copyleft licensed.
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Re:The End of the Redis Adventure by pjmlp on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:55AM (#23691345)
Taking projects into new directions , possibly closed source, due to political disputes.

Without the legal obligation to upstream, the majority wins what happens afterwards.

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