Simon Phipps

Almost without skipping a beat, the Linux Foundation has forked #Redis following the betrayal of its community.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

#OpenSource

Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Valkey Community

Community maintainers, contributors, and users will continue collaborative development of an open source, in-memory data store under the new Valkey name.

Mar 28, 2024 at 5:09pmWeb
Show threadIanMar 28, 2024
@webmink Perhaps this Wikipedia article wants updating... I'm sure it won't be long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis
Redis - Wikipedia

Show threadDarryl RammMar 28, 2024

@webmink @timbray

Pretty much could garantia this would happen 🤷‍♂️

Show threadjsledMar 28, 2024
@webmink @timbray who called it "valkey" and not "redistributable"?
Show threadMark StosbergMar 28, 2024
@webmink Sounds like outcome could have avoided if cloud providers like #aws had shared a fairer amount of Redis hosting revenue with Redis Labs.
Show threadDannyMar 28, 2024
@markstos @webmink All them major cloud vendors including AWS had engineers contributing to Redis upstream. That is more than enough. There's nothing "fair" about cloud vendors giving part of their revenue to companies like Redis Labs.
Show threadAndrew LaurenceMar 28, 2024
@reppep What's the TL;DR behind this?
Show threadTrevor FlowersMar 28, 2024
@webmink Is it named "Valkey" because that's kind of "Valkyrie" without the 'r' of Reddit? 😹
Show threadjaschopMar 29, 2024

@webmink
Interesting to see two projects take Redis into two different directions:

- Valkey with a permissive license and industry support

- Redict with the LGPL and based on Codeberg

Good showcase of different movements within the OS scene, imo.