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Redis is open source again

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Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by ksec »

placatedmayhem wrote: post #3

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!

I am thinking the same that going to AGPL may actually push more people to Valkey.

Although I haven't checked if ValKey any substantial development since the fork.

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Post by dismalaf »

AGPL is cancer. Valkey already exists, people already switched, it's already landed in a bunch of distros. I don't see anyone moving back, especially when Valkey has some big corporate support.

And for my personal usage, Rails 8 has moved Redis functionality into the database by default, which works fine.

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Post by md3911027514 »

Our company made the switch over to Valkey, and we've invested hundreds of engineering hours into it already. I don't see us switching back at this point especially when it's clear Redis could easily pull the bait-and-switch again.

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

placatedmayhem wrote: post #3

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!

I very much doubt that anyone will stick with valkey after the PaaS providers switch back to just offering Redis proper.

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Post by md3911027514 »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #15
placatedmayhem wrote: post #3

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!

I very much doubt that anyone will stick with valkey after the PaaS providers switch back to just offering Redis proper.

Why would PaaS providers switch back to offering Redis? They've clearly all already invested a lot in Valkey (AWS, GCP, Heroku).

Re: Redis is open source again

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Post by detaro »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #10

I'm guessing valkey will be dead now?

why? The investment into it has already been done, and quite a few places will be happier with its license still. I think enough has happened/too much time passed that its not a given everyone will just quietly move back to Redis.
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