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Expected this comment. That's why I wrote:

>No matter what [antirez] says, [...]



Yep but it is important to have arguments. I'll show mine, and then it's your turn to convince others. So this is the timeline:

- I start the Redis project, BSD.

- I get sponsors.

- Finally the sponsor becomes Redis Labs.

- I continue to develop Redis with my private roadmap, still BSD.

- Redis Labs creates modules and other forks with enhanced capabilities, that were mostly out of the scope of the original project.

- Redis Labs changes the license of such add-ons to a proprietary one.

- The project on Github that everybody is participating to, and the only one I continue to develop, remains BSD.

Given the above, it's up to you to tell exactly what went wrong with Redis. If you believe for the story to be right that I had to force Redis Labs to license their code in a specific way, I think your reasoning is odd.


I'm not going to let this get derailed into a public fight with you about this. Take it to email if you want: sir@cmpwn.com.




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