AFAIK, the old Redis was BSD licensed. BSD is very permissive, but it doesn't grab the intellectual property to the project: they still belong to the original author (Apache is the only open source license that says your contribution now belong to the project and it is not yours anymore).
That means there is a lot of code belonging to someone not Redis Labs, which Redis Labs should've asked if they can changed the license of the contributor's intellectual property.
This means that the old, BSD-license Redis still exists and Redis Labs should still provide it with the old license. The new, bullshit-licensed Redis should be a fork and, as a fork, have another name.
@juliobiason #Copyright holders can relicense their work under any license they like anytime.
Yet: 1)Usually the original authors are the copyright holders
2) #relicensing should comply with other licensed works (I.e. libraries, frameworks and so on)
3) AFAICS #BSD and #Apache#licenses does not have termination clauses that actually works
Copyright holders can relicense their work, sure, but if I contribute a very fast caching/eviction mechanism to any GPL/BSD project, I am still the copyright holder of that intellectual property.
If the main project wants to change the license, they need to ask my permission to change my intellectual property to something else, as I licensed it with the original license.
@paoloredaelli (That's why Apache License exists: It has a clause that autmatically transfers the intellectual property to the project owners on contribution)
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