Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
Cloud firms want a version of Redis that's still open to managed service resale.
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Cloud firms want a version of Redis that's still open to managed service resale.
The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. At the time of the license change, Redis Labs CEO Rowan Trollope said he "wouldn't be surprised if Amazon sponsors a fork," as the new license requires commercial agreements to offer Redis-as-a-service, making it incompatible with the standard definition of "open source."
AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open source fork together.
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Linux Foundation announced its intent to form Valkey, an open source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store. Project...
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