I like Andrew, but I think that this way of telling the story does not match the reality of the BSD license. With the BSD license, there are many potential forks of a project (with potentially different licenses) that compete at the same time in the "market" of the user base. Who puts the best developments, leads the race.
When I stepped back from Redis, I formally left it in the hands of the Core Team the was constituted by Redis Inc. (the one that included three Redis Labs programmers, one from AWS, one from Alibaba), but this was a formal act from my side: with the BSD license any third party can fork, change name, continue the project with a different trajectory and with different goals.
BSD code is a common good, and everybody can impress new directions, if willing to do so.
When I stepped back from Redis, I formally left it in the hands of the Core Team the was constituted by Redis Inc. (the one that included three Redis Labs programmers, one from AWS, one from Alibaba), but this was a formal act from my side: with the BSD license any third party can fork, change name, continue the project with a different trajectory and with different goals.
BSD code is a common good, and everybody can impress new directions, if willing to do so.