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Re:Redis is open source again by lolinder on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:29PM (#43862269)
They require a Contributor License Agreement [0] whereby you grant them the copyright to your contribution. Which means they become the ultimate decision-maker for all contributions and can relicense however and whenever they wish.

[0] https://redis.io/legal/redis-software-grant-and-contributor-...

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Re:Redis is open source again by colordrops on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:53PM (#43862585)
A contributor license agreement that does anything besides put your code under the project's standard OSS license is a huge red flag.
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Re:Redis is open source again by assassinator42 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:42PM (#43863114)
I took a bit of umbrage with LineageOS for this.

CyanogenMod required a CLA to assign them copyright to Cyanogen Inc, only for them to basically kill the project. They forked it as LineageOS only to still require a CLA.

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Re:Redis is open source again by porker on Friday May 02, 2025 @01:53AM (#43866583)
IMO the anger people direct at source available licences would be better directed at CLAs. They're what hands the power away.

Don't contribute to projects with CLAs people without reading them carefully and understanding what can happen! Then you won't be surprised if a project is relicensed because you know you signed an agreement to let them do that.

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Re:Redis is open source again by tasuki on Friday May 02, 2025 @05:35AM (#43867784)
Mhm, so all the contributors to Redis ever have signed the Contributor License Agreement? It's certainly possible, but I'd be a little surprised.
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