Re:Redis License Changed
by LikelyABurner on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:07AM
(#39776703)
Yeah, I don't like that we're at the point that we need licenses like this, but in a world where AWS has decided to "disrupt" the methods for open source monetization that the open source community has generally agreed upon as being in the spirit of open source, I don't see any other option.
Re:Redis License Changed
by dragonwriter on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:32PM
(#39780812)
The methods in question are not the ones that the open source community has agreed upon, they are ones that the FOSS community had identified as being non-viable, with detailed reasoning, before the OSI was even founded. The fact that a handful of founders and VCs decided to ignore this established wisdom does not constitute an general agreement by the “open source community”.
The consensus that simply selling FOSS software (and renting access to it is not substantially different in this regard) is not a viable method of monetizing FOSS as an independent business centered around a particular piece of FOSS because large established firms with established hardware, professional services, and other associated lines of business and the ability to integrate it with their other offerings would eat your lunch was established by, at the latest, the mid-1990s.
Re:Redis License Changed
by happymellon on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:14AM
(#39776738)
Why not just use the AGPL?
If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version.
Which sounds pretty good and is the complete opposite of what Mongo or Elastic are doing.