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by theamk 1576 days ago
So.. Redis had a choice of licenses: BSD (improvements do not need to be contrbuted back) or GPL (improvements do need to be contributed back).

For whatever reason they chose BSD. And now Amazon made some improvements and is not contributing back.

Not sure why anyone is surprised.
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heavyset_go 1576 days ago
GPL wouldn't prevent Amazon from forking and then providing managed instances of the project without releasing the source code of the fork. AGPL would, though.

But yes, this is the reason I won't work for free on my own or others' BSD or MIT licensed projects.

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ignoramous 1576 days ago
BSD and MIT don't grant patent rights; this might be one reason Facebook uses them, though they did try to get predatory in the only way Facebook can: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881

ianal, but imo, Apache License v2, Mozilla Public License v2, and xGPLs v3 are better at protecting the rights of the consumers (including contributors).

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