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Re:Redis is open source again by palata on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:07AM (#43867007)
Which means that they have to share their changes to Grafana, doesn't it?
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Re:Redis is open source again by pabs3 on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:22AM (#43867080)
The LWN thread says that they don't, but have separate proprietary licensing and co-marketing agreements with Grafana Labs.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/#CommAnchor1019710

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Re:Redis is open source again by palata on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:28AM (#43867111)
Thanks that interesting!

And in this case it means that it's not AGPL, but proprietary. Which kind of proves my point: they are apparently paying Grafana Labs to avoid the constraints of AGPL. If Grafana was permissive, they would surely not pay.

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Re:Redis is open source again by KingMob on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:22AM (#43892643)
That's not what I'm getting at.

Amazon hosting Grafana means it's not only "permissive licences are better for competitors".

Copyleft licenses don't present obstacle to competitors that people seem to believe.

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