Huh wow, TIL #redis never had a contributor license agreement.
Does that make this the first high-profile case of a previously-FOSS project relicensing while having a bunch of contributions made by people who didn't consent to the license change? ..How is that going to go down #opensource
@nemobis@mort and it seems like open tofu, the project that forked it is having little trouble getting support. That still leaves the issue of massive firms freeriding on open source without contributing. It does seem the community needs better licenses, perhaps even contractual agreements
@marcus_grant Yes, clarifying mutual expectations is good. If a contract on top of the license helps, so be it.
I'm not convinced it's primarily a legal issue: to this day, if you're a self-hosted user of #HashiCorp#FreeSoftware, you have no way to throw money at HashiCorp even if you want to.
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