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Re:Redis License Changed by sofixa on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:35AM (#39778976)
> Apparently marketing people who want to sell stuff under those new licenses think "source available" is uncool.

It's not that it's uncool, it's just not true and reflective of reality. There's a world of difference between a .zip on an FTP ("source available because GPL says it must be") and everything still happening in public on GitHub and everyone still being able to contribute if they want to. Both are technically "source available".

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Re:Redis License Changed by orthoxerox on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:35AM (#39798393)
And yet a .zip on an FTP might be GPL-compliant whereas a GitHub repo isn't necessarily.
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Re:Redis License Changed by sofixa on Saturday March 23, 2024 @05:16AM (#39798547)
Exactly! But it's objectively a shit way of sharing code, there is no contributions possible, etc.
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Re:Redis License Changed by orthoxerox on Saturday March 23, 2024 @06:27AM (#39798823)
GPL or any OSS license doesn't require you to accept contributions. Your users are free to do anything with it except distribute derviative software under a different license, but you, the author, don't owe them anything except buildable and runnable (since v3) source code.
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