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Re:Why AWS Supports Valkey by Kwpolska on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:47PM (#39954060)
How thin is “thin”? If I build a chat app on top of Redis, is it safe? There’s a tutorial on the Redis website: https://developer.redis.com/howtos/chatapp/ — is it a sign that it’s too simple to be distinct?

Or I can just migrate my app to Valkey and be sure I’m safe from lawyers.

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Re:Why AWS Supports Valkey by graemep on Saturday April 06, 2024 @04:43PM (#39955325)
Its a chat app not a data store, so it fails the "primary purpose" test so its safe: its pretty obvious that a chat app serves a different purpose to a key value data store.

Nothing is definitely "safe from lawyers". In some ways BSD is less safe than SSPL - no patent licensing clauses for example.

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