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Future for valkey now Redis is OSS again? #2037
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Hi, Just want to get the conversation starting since Redis became open source again https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ Not sure if the idea would be to backport changes from Valkey to Redis, keep valkey as an independent project or something in between. Regards, |
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Google and AWS that are sponsors of Valkey can't use AGPL. |
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I cannot speak for Google, but I'm familiar with the policies and processes at Amazon for using software under licenses like AGPLv3. It is inaccurate to broadly state that AWS cannot use software under AGPLv3 terms. AGPLv3 licensed software is included in Amazon Linux (namely, in the There are other reasons why I think that Valkey will continue going strong. Primarily I think it will continue because there is a dedicated team of maintainers that care about making Valkey useful, and loved by all those who use it.
Already Redis is including improvements from Valkey into Redis, which they are free to do under the BSD-3 terms of the Valkey project. I hope that all projects that derive from the original BSD-3 licensed Redis codebase will cooperate when coordinating security vulnerability disclosures that affect them all, no matter what license they chose for subsequent releases. You can see evidence that such cooperation with CVE-2024-31227, which was patched in |
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I will provide my perspective of it: Valkey is an OpenSource project, which was created under the Linux Foundation in order to clearly STATE and COMMIT to having it OpenSource forever! Redis, on the other hand, does not offer any future guarantees, which also makes it harder for companies to support it. All Valkey supporting entities are committed to continue and contribute to the success of Valkey and I think of no reason that trend is going to change. |
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Valkey is receptive to user-submitted feature suggestions, whereas Redis has historically not been. |
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Valkey isn't going anywhere. We've now had the chance to discuss it among the various stakeholders and community members, and everyone is still interested in continuing to maintain the project. We might be amendable to the license, but Redis did not return to the project it was before the license change. Redis no longer has a community driven governance, which puts our contributions at risk of being rejected. Redis has opt'd to keep it's CLA, so they could relicense our changes at any time. I still believe in the mission of the Valkey project, which is to create a vendor neutral location to continue to innovate in the key-value database space. |
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They did this to themselves. They made the community lose trust in Redis. Keep strong guys. |
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Valkey isn't going anywhere. We've now had the chance to discuss it among the various stakeholders and community members, and everyone is still interested in continuing to maintain the project.
We might be amendable to the license, but Redis did not return to the project it was before the license change. Redis no longer has a community driven governance, which puts our contributions at risk of being rejected. Redis has opt'd to keep it's CLA, so they could relicense our changes at any time.
I still believe in the mission of the Valkey project, which is to create a vendor neutral location to continue to innovate in the key-value database space.