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Commons Clause with Kevin Wang from Software Engineering Daily #33

Open manuzhang opened 6 years ago

manuzhang commented 6 years ago

This is not seriously a READ but an episode of Software Engineering Daily Podcast (strongly recommended) on commons clause license and everything open source. It interests me because Redis Labs recently relicensed its add-on modules like RedisSearch and RedisGraph with Common Clause.

Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software.

They want to stop cloud providers from repackaging the open source projects into proprietary-services and making revenues without contributing back to the community. However, it also forbids Linux distributions to ship those modules and the Linux community has create a fork from the version prior to the license change.