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Before the next beta I've to select a license among GPL, LGPL, and BSD. Please help me if you have some idea about it. I always liked more BSD because there is more freedom, but for a project like Redis that is used like a 'service' maybe the BSD is not that useful and the GPL instead works as a protection. But I'm not that sure.

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Even under the less restrictive licenses like BSD/Apache/MIT, there is a strong incentive to contribute private changes back to the project. If you don't, then the public version and your private version start to diverge and it takes more and more work to take advantage of fixes and new features as the public version progresses.

BSD, MIT or Apachev2 is my preference. I really don't like the GPL and it does tend to turn off some folks from using open source projects. I would not be too concerned about someone taking the work closed source even if you do go BSD.

Ok everybody want BSD, so it's the way to go. About someone closing the source in a proprietary application, who cares as long as we can still access and hack on our source BSD-licensed? Ok we have a license :) Thanks

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