Re:The race to replace Redis
by exe34 on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:41AM
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The project still belongs to society as a whole! You can fork it too! You just can't profit off their future work.
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It does not belong to the society (whatever that's supposed to mean). It is not in the public domain as far as we know.
It was bsd licensed. The code that you received before is still covered by the bsd license. You can pretty much do anything you want with that code except misrepresent yourself as the author.
Public domain isn't the only form of free software. You can literally use it in exactly the same way as you did before. Nothing has been taken away from you.
Does this address your concern?
I agree, I didn't make any argument against that, I just don't see the difference between <party with money that bought a name and sells the free work of others> and <party with money that didn't buy a name and sells the free work of others>. My only argument here is that there's not much difference between AWS and Garantia Data from my limited understanding of the situation.