Re:From where I left
by prmoustache on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:25AM
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> 1. Many people had contributed their efforts to the Redis project for free - both in terms of code [...] it was under the understanding that project would remain under the same open source license.
The whole point of the MIT/BSD licenses versus licenses like the GPL is to not be limited by that.
> It honestly felt like a betrayal of trust.
It feels like total ignorance from. If such license change bother you, you should only contribute to projects that are licensed under GPL or similar licenses and that don't force contributors to sign a CLA.
I don't like current Redis license, but nobody lost any code and any contributor can still contribute to any fork that started using the last open source version.
The whole point of the MIT/BSD licenses versus licenses like the GPL is to not be limited by that.
> It honestly felt like a betrayal of trust.
It feels like total ignorance from. If such license change bother you, you should only contribute to projects that are licensed under GPL or similar licenses and that don't force contributors to sign a CLA.
I don't like current Redis license, but nobody lost any code and any contributor can still contribute to any fork that started using the last open source version.