Debian dev forks Redis modules that are under Commons Clause licence | Linux Today

Debian dev forks Redis modules that are under Commons Clause licence

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Sam Varghese
Oct 15, 2018

Debian GNU/Linux developer Chris Lamb is taking the fight to those pushing the Commons Clause, a non-free licence, by setting up a two-man team to fork modules that add functionality to the in-memory database Redis, after the company that makes Redis put the modules under this licence and started to charge for them. Lamb is the current leader of the project but said he was doing this in a private capacity.

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