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The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. At the time of the license change, Redis Labs CEO Rowan Trollope said he "wouldn't be surprised if Amazon sponsors a fork," as the new license requires commercial agreements to offer Redis-as-a-service, making it incompatible with the standard definition of "open source."

AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open source fork together.

Cloud and AI are the most important technologies today, and both have outstripped open source licenses. It’s time for a new open source definition.

Courts ignores the intention of the drafters, rules one cannot remove additional restrictions from the AGPLv3 added by the original licensor.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower court decision concluding what we’ve always known: that it’s false advertising to claim that software is “open source” when it’s not licensed under an open source license.