"#Valkey therefore feels like a landmark for the Linux Foundation but also the industry as a whole.
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"#Valkey therefore feels like a landmark for the Linux Foundation but also the industry as a whole. Relicensing doesn’t look nearly as attractive or indeed, worry free, as it did just a couple of months ago. Vendors are going to have to give such moves a bit more thought – the idea that relicensing concerns will simply blow over isn’t quite so clear."
Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful
In the era of the open source rug pull, the role of open source foundations is more important than ever. The “rug pull” here refers to companies that have used open source as a distribution mechanism, building a community and user base, before changing the license to be restricted, rather than truly open source. “This
James Governor's Monkchips (redmonk.com)
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@linux_mclinuxface I think each situation is different.
The Redis relicense was a perfect storm due to history of the project/company, the economy (blocking an IPO for Redis), the # of funding rounds, the Redis OSS project being of extremely high quality, timing, the relationships between Redis and the non-Redis community members and other Redis-aaS companies and the billions of revenue on the table for the companies now united behind Valkey.
There was no other way for this to play out.
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@larsrosenquist I agree that it’s not a universal answer or that we (Valkey) found _the_ solution, but I do agree with James that it shows would be re-licensers that foundations and forks are a potential potent consequence.