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To be fair, Redis itself still remains BSD licensed.

The other modules for Redis developed by RedisLabs [1] are under the new Commons Clause license.

The big 3 cloud providers provide Redis as a cache service and don't use these modules anyway, so their offerings will remain unaffected.

[1] https://redislabs.com/community/oss-projects/

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I wonder if it will follow the path of Android: start with a huge open source base and some propriety bits on top, and as they go on, move more and more of the functionality to the propriety part until the open source part is useless by itself.

that definitely seems to be the plan. this is the first step towards it.

Totally, seems like they are trying to feature tier with a license.

If this doesn't affect the big 3 cloud providers, then why are they doing it?

From reading the post, I got the impression they were specifically trying to stop the big cloud providers...

Redis Modules are more and more becoming an important part of the Redis ecosystem. I would imagine many features are going to be added as modules rather than as new commands in core Redis.

Not being able to offer these while RedisLabs can is what I think they're going for here.

It looks like you could still develop and ship your own modules, even for profit, along with core redis.

This seems much like the "You have access to the source, so you can go fix any issues you find" answer to any complaints about OSS.

Developing modules for any third party software means not only do you have to have the skills and resources available to implement it, you then have to maintain it on an ongoing basis. That's potentially a huge task for small operations.

That's the thing--it's just a copyright headache. If Amazon wants, they'll use Redis anyway.

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