Totally agree! If you don’t want AWS turning your project into a paid service without giving you a dime, you’ve got to pick a license that stops that. BSD doesn’t cut it!

> It's simple: supporting a business without getting paid sucks ass. The second a project excludes commercial work they get 100x my attention.

This stance is interesting to me because it reminds me of psychological experiments about utility versus fairness. I'd like to ask you a question in that spirit.

If you could choose one of the following, which would you choose?

1. Noncommercial users gain 3× on some comprehensive metric of useful software with the source available (imagine the metric includes code quality, features, hardware support, choice, etc.), but businesses gain 10×

2. Noncommercial users gain 2×, and businesses gain 2×

3. Noncommercial users gain 1.1×, and businesses gain nothing

4. Noncommercial users gain nothing, and businesses gain nothing

5. Noncommercial users lose 3×, but businesses lose 10×

Edit: Added option 3 and renumbered the options after.

The AGPL doesn't require any payment, and its not hard to comply with. The hyperscalers are already publishing their Valkey code, they could do the same for Redis easily.

Your attention as in "your work/contribution" or just "your use"? Because if it's "your work" they'll make you sign a CLA anyway so they can sell it on and you don't get paid.