[BSDobelix]

It's not "asking for money", it's shutting down a usage of the code, and that's completely against the spirit of "free software", and even against the broader meaning of opensource[1].

However, I think everyone understands that it's a problem to make a living from small but important part of an bigger infrastructure, but this is the wrong way.

The Linux Foundation will throw money at Valkey, Amazon will still sell the service and Redi's will lose (because it's just one company and not opensource).

[1] https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l...

And I'm not even talking about external contributors whose work is re-licensed under a proprietary license.

[justincormack]

The Linux Foundation won't "throw money" at it, it will probably provide some legal support if needed, but project work is largely funded by the membership fees for the subfoundations, and at this project membership level thats not much unless eg AWS etc are contributing it.

[BSDobelix]

>but project work is largely funded by the membership fees for the subfoundations

That's something completely different you are right ;)

>>Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community

>>Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc...