Redis is open source again

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Post by antirez » Thu, May 01, 2025, 3:56 PM UTC

Redis is open source again
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Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by draw_down » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

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Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by placatedmayhem » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

I'm curious whether the community will trust Redis-the-company again after this, or if they'll choose to stick with Valkey. The other concern is at least some big company legal departments are wary of AGPL software, which makes Valkey, still BSD, more attractive to them.

Edit: Regardless, thank you and the rest of the folks inside Redis for pushing to bring this back to OSS!

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by eknkc » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

During this time I believe a lot of alternatives (mostly protocol compatible to redis so they would be drop in replacements) came into light.

Has there been a consensus on one? Is there a winner?

I love redis and will probably keep using it. Just curious.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by DeepYogurt » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

eknkc wrote: post #4

During this time I believe a lot of alternatives (mostly protocol compatible to redis so they would be drop in replacements) came into light. Has there been a consensus on one? Is there a winner? I love redis and will probably keep using it. Just curious.

Valkey has replaced redis in a few distros

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by ezekg » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

Of course it's the AGPL, which is essentially the SSPL in practice.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by ezekg » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

DeepYogurt wrote: post #5

eknkc wrote: post #4

During this time I believe a lot of alternatives (mostly protocol compatible to redis so they would be drop in replacements) came into light. Has there been a consensus on one? Is there a winner? I love redis and will probably keep using it. Just curious.

Valkey has replaced redis in a few distros

Also PaaS like Heroku adopted Valkey as a drop-in replacement for Redis.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by eknkc » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

DeepYogurt wrote: post #5

eknkc wrote: post #4

During this time I believe a lot of alternatives (mostly protocol compatible to redis so they would be drop in replacements) came into light. Has there been a consensus on one? Is there a winner? I love redis and will probably keep using it. Just curious.

Valkey has replaced redis in a few distros

It is a fork of the latest oss release right? I thought some completely new implementations were introduced.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by xiwenc » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

A bit more info from CEO: https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/

Sounds like SSPL did not yield the desired outcome.

Glad AGPL is an option now.

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by VWWHFSfQ » Thu, May 01, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

I'm guessing valkey will be dead now?