IIUC KeyDB is a fork of Redis 6 – way before the license change, and at least according to their own claim about the reason for the fork, it is about different ideas about performance and features that wouldn’t (didn’t? I don’t know that they even talked with Redia Labs about their ideas) work with Redis Labs roadmap. They also don’t offer a SaaS version so I don’t think their case factors into this issue at all.

If the worry is that “oh, the license has changed! Oh no, now I need to read the new license and think whether it changes my business model! This is too much work! I rather fork and maintain a big performance complex software product myself”, then… Seriously? I mean, I know lawyers are lazy(*) but this is ridiculous.

*) I worked with Intel legal department on a few things, and oh boy – I can tell you stories.