Redis Licensing Changes and You | Mike Perham

A few weeks ago, the owners of Redis changed its licensing from BSD to a more limited source available license. As far as I know this was done in order to prevent service providers from adding their own closed source, proprietary changes to their Redis service offerings.In principle I like this change.My Faktory project uses the AGPL license for the same purpose: Faktory is open source and anyone who offers Faktory as a service with proprietary changes should have to open source those changes too. I consider this a valuable quid pro quo: if you change my open source to make money, you must contribute some of that value back to the community in return.