Challenges can arise when snippets or lines of code within proprietary products contain open source code, which developers rely on because it is easy to use and free. In fact, a 2025 study by software ...

Redis's source code had been available under the BSD 3-clause license, a permissive agreement which allows developers to make commercial use of the code without paying.

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 ...