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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The biggest thing was a fork of the Redis project, Valkey, that is backed by The Linux Foundation and, critically, also Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. Valkey is "fully open source," Linux Foundation execs note, with the kind of BSD-3-Clause license Redis sported until recently.
As noted by Matt Asay, who formerly ran open source strategy and marketing at AWS, most developers are "largely immune to Redis' license change."
Shifts in open source licensing have triggered previous keep-it-open forks, including OpenSearch (from ElasticSearch) and OpenTofu (from Terraform).
If you're reading all this and you don't own a gigascale cloud provider or sit on the board of a source code licensing foundation, it's hard to know what to make of the fiasco.
Every party in this situation is doing what is legally permissible, and software from both sides will continue to be available to the wider public.
Taking your ball and heading home is a longstanding tradition when parties disagree on software goals and priorities.
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