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		wmf on March 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redis adopts dual source-available licensing The use of the word "permissive" here to describe super-strong copyleft licenses is uh, interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license

justinclift on March 21, 2024 [–]

That doesn't seem accurate?

Did you misread the first paragraph of that wikipedia entry, where it defines the term as pretty much opposite that, or am I misunderstanding what you're meaning?

wmf on March 21, 2024 | [–]

Redis is using the wrong definition of permissive.

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