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Tragedy of the Commons Clause

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Stephen O'Grady
Sep 13, 2018

The Commons Clause, in the event that you are extremely fortunate and missed the eruption that followed the news that Redis Labs had applied it to several of its previously AGPL modules – although not, as was initially believed, core Redis itself – is essentially a license rider. For something that has generated this much controversy, the language itself is actually simple.
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