[anonymous_i]

Stupid ask:

Can't developers sue this company for false advertising ?

This started off as one thing and ended up being something else. They probably at any point did not hint about changing license in the future, just guessing.

For any open projects , couldn't dev. request for keeping the license as is or Free(or whatever relevant) before letting their code merged.

This may sound illogical to someone who is a domain expert, but this is just a dumb question from someone who has almost 0 clue on this topic.

[mpweiher]

> Can't developers sue this company for false advertising ?

No.

Questions for you:

1. What was advertised?

2. By who?

3. Where?

[anonymous_i]

Okay developers can't do anything now.

Sue is probably not the better description of the thoughts I had. Let's say, can't the developers do anything in an act of retaliation? Given that so much work came from the community.

> ... advertised

Yeah. Wrong choice of word. Using one kind of license to get the attention of public is in spirit akin to advertising(that was the line of thought I had). I am not doubling down on stupified things I said, I am tryina explain what I thought.

So... if I can re-ask the question , I take my dumb-comment yesterday back and ask it like this :

can't the community do in act of retaliation against these acts ?

can't we mandate community approval for license updates when the community is also participating in contribution and popularizing its usage

I do not have anything against Redis. What is going to happen to the future of FOSS and software in general , if once open(open source and Libre) projects end up walled or proprietary etc.