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		twoodfin 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redis is open source again The negative effect is that you have to bring the lawyers back in, and they tend to take an extremely conservative position on what might be litigated as offering “Redis-as-a-service”.

cortesoft 3 months ago [–]

Would they? My experience is the lawyers sign off when software is being chosen, but then they aren't consulted again.

After that, it is just updating version numbers. Lawyers don't sign off on version upgrades, why would I bring this to them?

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