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Oh I see. IANAL but if the plan with agpl is to sell commercial versions for people who don’t want to worry about FOSS licensing/infection then it may be a great license for that precisely because of the lack of clarity. You can do similar with OSL - “pay us to get it under a different license where you can make a closed derivative work” - but OSL clearly allows linking (according to its author) without the mere linking requiring opening the thing that links it so it may be strictly worse for Redis.

I was merely saying OSL is better than agpl as a license (imo). It’s very clear. But lack of clarity can have strategic value.



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