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
@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.
While I’ll be following the #Linkerd / #CNCF drama with interest, this isn’t a rug pull like the #terraform license switch. #OpenSource means the source code is… well, open. That’s all. I’ve said it before: there’s no “spirit of open source” that always seems to put a ton of obligations on maintainers but never on users.
Doesn’t mean anyone has to be happy about the change, and I fully understand those who aren’t. But if it’s not in a license — OSS or commercial — it’s not an obligation.