[immibis]

> There are already forks that are FOSS.

FWIW Redis is still FOSS since SSPL is FOSS - very strong copyleft. It's not a proprietary license, it's rather "more AGPL than AGPL."

Even if [the OSI](https://opensource.org/sponsors) disagrees.

[lenerdenator]

If I'm understanding the changes Redis made, it's FOSS until you decide you want to use their server to create a cloud service offering. Am I mistaken?

[Sander_Marechal]

Then it isn't FOSS, because it violates freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish

[lenerdenator]

That's my view of FOSS as well; was asking for clarification on that.

[immibis]

It still is, you just have to publish the whole derived work that you created under the SSPL - not just the source to create redis.exe but also the whole source to create the backend of myhostedredisservice.com