Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
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Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#2Hopefully they don’t get legal pressure from Redis Labs over name similarity. Didn’t OpenTF have to change to OpenTofu for that reason?
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#3If you have a commercial use-case, there is also a non copyleft fork available here
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc...
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
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Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#5If you have a commercial use-case, there is also a non copyleft fork available here https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launc...
LGPL is a pretty weak copyleft license and was chosen specifically because it is amenable to almost all present-day commercial use-cases for Redis. You don't have to publish your changes to Redict in most situations, commercial or not. Check out the FAQ here:
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#6I don't get the point of this - people are upset that Redis is trying to make money from companies like AWS and Google?
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#7I don't get the point of this - people are upset that Redis is trying to make money from companies like AWS and Google?
Substantial portions of Redis were written by AWS and Google. People are upset because Redis is a collaborative project with many people working on it and Redis Ltd wants the sole right to commercialize the work of an entire community.
LWN has a good overview:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/966631/8bc9d155d4e2afb3/
Redis Ltd is only responsible for about 20% of the work.
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#8What about Valkey? We have 2 big forks now
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#9Time will tell if the version on Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/redict/redict) can compete with the fork on Github (https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey) in terms of visibility and contributions.
Re: Redict 7.3.0, a copyleft fork of Redis, is now available
#10I don't get the point of this - people are upset that Redis is trying to make money from companies like AWS and Google?
People are upset because Redis is not open source anymore. That is all.