> Today a page about the new Common Clause license in the Redis Labs web site was interpreted as if Redis itself switched license. This is not the case, Redis is, and will remain, BSD licensed.
> What is happening instead is that certain Redis modules, developed inside Redis Labs, are now released under the Common Clause (using Apache license as a base license). This means that basically certain enterprise add-ons…
That is from a few years ago, but I believe it's still true, and basic redis is still FreeBSD. This isn't a slight of hand where "basic redis core" is open source but not really useful by itself, I think the majority of redis installs have never been using those "enterprise add-ons".
I don't think this is necessarily a problem for the author's theory in general, which I am generally sympathetic to as accurately describing something going on in the software world right now, but I think it's misinformation about redis.
But it doesn't change the essence of the argument posited by the author. The redis modules in question were originally AGPL. Redis Labs relicensed them to Apache+Commons Clause. Both Redis Labs and Mongo reacted to pressure by relicensing software.
But then redis is essentially still the "open core" model he is saying is dead.
I agree it doesn't really disprove his general story (which I agree is a trend), it doesn't have to be universal to be a trend, a very strong trend even, there can be special unusual circumstances behind redis, or it can just not yet have succumbed but be on the way, or it can just be an unexplained exception to a strong trend.
It just makes redis not a great example to choose, and it makes his article misleading giving people the wrong idea about what's going on with redis.
What's "going on in software" is that most businesses don't want to devote a lot of resources to operating software themselves in the cloud. If you sell popular software and don't provide a cloud service, you are basically opening up an opportunity for somebody else to do it. Public clouds tend to jump on this because it sells underlying infrastructure in addition to the management value add.
OSS companies like Mongo, DataBricks, and Confluent run popular cloud services. They all seem to be doing fine for this reason. I don't see a lot of proof that changing their licensing was a root cause of their success.
http://antirez.com/news/120
> Today a page about the new Common Clause license in the Redis Labs web site was interpreted as if Redis itself switched license. This is not the case, Redis is, and will remain, BSD licensed.
> What is happening instead is that certain Redis modules, developed inside Redis Labs, are now released under the Common Clause (using Apache license as a base license). This means that basically certain enterprise add-ons…
That is from a few years ago, but I believe it's still true, and basic redis is still FreeBSD. This isn't a slight of hand where "basic redis core" is open source but not really useful by itself, I think the majority of redis installs have never been using those "enterprise add-ons".
I don't think this is necessarily a problem for the author's theory in general, which I am generally sympathetic to as accurately describing something going on in the software world right now, but I think it's misinformation about redis.