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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do not understand why would a developer (or development team) change the licensing terms of their software for something stricter, like Redis did. Could someone tell me what the factors are?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I guess it's things like AWS Elasticahe that made them want to provide their own service without sharing the code with their soon to be competitors.