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Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license

by cpburns2009 on 5/1/25, 1:13 PM with 4 comments

  • by Vinz_ on 5/1/25, 2:21 PM

    > This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork

    So the goal was to no longer have any contributions from hyperscalers to Redis? I don’t understand this, when the first paragraph complains that they weren’t contributing enough. Redis has burned a lot of goodwill in the open source community, and yet another license change doesn’t inspire much confidence in the future either…

  • by gus_massa on 5/2/25, 3:28 AM

  • by Tomte on 5/1/25, 1:30 PM

    2018: "Redis will remain BSD licensed"

    2024: "dual RSALv2 and SSPLv1 license"

    2025: "available under the AGPLv3 open source license"

    Yes, that's great and all, but next month you're probably going to write a bespoke license in iambic pentameter or so.