If there is community demand for it, a fork will appear. It’s a mature software project at this point so the maintenance burden should be manageable with a small core team of community developers.
The best way to ensure that the license doesn't change is to forego copyright assignment. So if someone is really committed to making sure that license will never change, that's what they'll do. Antirez didn't do that
That only works for copyleft licenses. Even with Antirez' original work fully available under BSD, there is nothing stopping Redis Labs from adding new code under a proprietary license.
You know what? Screw these greedy bastards
(Boots up windows laptop)
I’m just not going to use them anymore
(Goes to Amazon.com to order milk)
It has to be open source
(Unlocks iPhone)
> Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
As of 6 days ago.