Re:Redis is open source again
by palata on Friday May 02, 2025 @02:30AM
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Before moving from permissive licences to non-open-source licences (because they have exceptions for TooBigTech), an easy step would be to use copyleft licences, wouldn't it?
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Not necessarily. Amazon sells a hosted Grafana service, which is AGPL.
That's wrong: they pay Grafana Labs to use it as proprietary, as noted in another comment:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/#CommAnchor1019710
> Grafana's a great example of this. AWS and Azure _could_ have sold the unmodified AGPL Grafana as a service or published their modified versions, but instead, they both struck proprietary licensing and co-marketing agreements with Grafana Labs.