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Well, Microsoft and Azure seems to be fully on-board with this change: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/redis-license-update-...

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> This dual-license model provides greater clarity and flexibility, empowering developers to make informed decisions about how they utilize Redis technologies in their projects.

Yeah sure.

Fully on board, but no mention if they’ll be releasing the source used to run Redis on Azure. Do they have an exemption? A separate license?

On one hand I could see why Microsoft would back the original project, since they likely don’t want Amazon owning a replacement (elasticsearch). But I’m not sure how they plan to honour the new licensing?

Ahh - side deal licensing.

“Redis will continue to support its vast partner ecosystem – including managed service providers and system integrators – with exclusive access to all future releases, updates, and features developed and delivered by Redis through its Partner Program. There is no change for existing Redis Enterprise customers.”

I wonder how exclusive this actually is. Did Microsoft pay a boat load of money to freeze out Amazon?

I think that is more that Amazon doesn't want to pay to support anything, and that includes Redis, so I don't think Microsoft paid for an exclusive deal.

Well yes, what else would you expect from the folks who once called open source "a cancer" and came up with "SharedSource" as a replacement. Good move on releasing a genuinely open alternative, though.

MIT allows for Microsoft's "our very slightly internally changed version does behave slightly differently enough so the two can't interoperate" shenanigans, though.

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