Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
by paxys on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:12PM
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No, the difference is that Elastic is a massive $15 billion company which needs more revenue to survive, while Redis is still largely run by one person.
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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
by rsstack on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:23PM
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This isn't true. Salvatore retired earlier this year. Redis is run, more or less, by Redis Labs which is valued at $1 billion.
Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
by aries185 on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:49AM
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While it is true that Salvatore retired last year, Redis is still FOSS under the BSD license, and it has a new governance team. Redis Labs is in the drivers seat with 3 of the 5 members, including 2 Project Leads. But there are members from Alibaba and AWS https://redis.io/topics/governance
If Redis Labs were to do something stupid with the Redis OSS license, Alibaba and AWS would fork it faster than you can HyperLogLog.
Too help clear up confusion between Redis & Redis Labs, you can read about the various licenses here: https://redislabs.com/legal/licenses/