It's the other way around. Mega corps are cut off from leeching on open work.
It's the only sustainable way to have business model around open work.
With pure open source licensing you have asymmetry - where a) you guys implement it b) we sell it, thanks - problem. You cannot run sustainable business around it.
As far as I understand it they want to preserve "open sourceness" for self hosted projects - ie. if you run redis in your docker/vm/k8s, you're fine. But if mega corp clouds are offering managed service, they need to give back a cut from premium they're charging end users.
It's the only sustainable way to have business model around open work.
With pure open source licensing you have asymmetry - where a) you guys implement it b) we sell it, thanks - problem. You cannot run sustainable business around it.
As far as I understand it they want to preserve "open sourceness" for self hosted projects - ie. if you run redis in your docker/vm/k8s, you're fine. But if mega corp clouds are offering managed service, they need to give back a cut from premium they're charging end users.