You could offer to pay them today, yes. And get a license. But is your license that handles your use case today still going to be valid and useful a year from now? Five years from now? What if redislabs decides there are some more loopholes in need of closing?
I'm not a fan of the AGPL. I think it's problematic as an example of copyright maximalism, and I think it's counterproductive in that it basically took a bunch of ideas that used to be FUD and said "yeah, what if we actually did that". But I can say this for it: you know what you're getting and you know that for all the burdens it puts on you, it (like the GNU GPL) was designed to make sure certain rugs can never be yanked out from under you.
I'm not a fan of the AGPL. I think it's problematic as an example of copyright maximalism, and I think it's counterproductive in that it basically took a bunch of ideas that used to be FUD and said "yeah, what if we actually did that". But I can say this for it: you know what you're getting and you know that for all the burdens it puts on you, it (like the GNU GPL) was designed to make sure certain rugs can never be yanked out from under you.