Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...
Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.
Today, Redis makes a dramatic return to its open source roots, offering Redis 8 under the AGPLv3 license. The shift follows a similar move by Elastic in August 2024 and completes the company’s ...