Because then AWS would fork from a version of redis with a more permissive license and only support a subset of functionality moving forward.
They did it with ElasticSearch
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-open-distro-for-elastic...
And Java
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/amazon-corretto-no-c...
And something similar with Mongo DB.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-...