However, I think everyone understands that it's a problem to make a living from small but important part of an bigger infrastructure, but this is the wrong way.

The Linux Foundation will throw money at Valkey, Amazon will still sell the service and Redi's will lose (because it's just one company and not opensource).

[1] https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l...

And I'm not even talking about external contributors whose work is re-licensed under a proprietary license.