Two days ago, Redis announced changes to the open source agreement : starting from Redis 7.4, Redis adopts SSPLv1 and RSALv2 dual licenses. Specifically, Redis will no longer be distributed under the BSD 3-Clause open source license, and its source code will be provided free of charge to developers, customers and partners through the Redis Community Edition.
The terms of the new license mention that cloud service providers hosting Redis products will no longer allow free use of Redis source code . Therefore, the reason why Redis modified the agreement is obvious - to refuse to be freed by cloud vendors.
Of course, the routines of cloud vendors have long been known to everyone - since you modify the agreement, I will create a fork branch based on the old open source version.
AWS has indeed lived up to expectations. Its engineers announced today that they have created a new Redis branch. They also expressed dissatisfaction with the change of the open source license of Redis and therefore hope to build a new truly open community to fill the gap left by Redis .
The Amazon CTO retweeted the tweet saying that this was the behavior of the engineers themselves and had nothing to do with AWS officials. (emmm, just say so,,)
New repo that hasn’t been named yet:
https://github.com/placeholderkv/placeholderkv
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