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As most of you probably already know REDIS has revoked its open source BSD license that allowed free usage of the application. They have published 2 licenses, both of which dont allow modification without releasing the complete source code, namely: 1) Source Available License (RSALv2) and 2) Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). Counter to this Linux Foundation and the community behind the development of REDIS software have forked the older version into another project called "Valkey": https://lnkd.in/gXvYx5Kt Its been supported by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle among many others. Its always sad to see an opensource project that was being codeveloped by a huge community fall into this state. But there is hope, thanks to Linux Foundation to keep the flame burning strong. Counter argument also holds good, a lot of bigwig corporations take advantage of free/opensource software and never give back to the community, we saw this with Amazon and ElasticSearch more than a year back. Hope this pattern changes. #REDIS #LINUXFOUNDATION #opensource

Karan (KD) Singh and Julien Lehmann brings us important information about Redis Inc.'s decision to change the type of license. Redis Inc. has transitioned from the BSD 3-Clause License to a dual licensing model for new versions starting with Redis v7.4, prompting the open source community to launch the Valkey project under the BSD license for continued development. Oracle supports Valkey and is renaming its Redis-based OCI Cache to OCI Cache. #oci #oraclecloudinfrastructure #redis #valkey #cache

Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork The Linux Foundation past week announced that it volition big Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory information store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. AWS and Google Cloud seldom backmost an open-source fork together. Yet, erstwhile Redis Labs switched Redis away from the permissive 3-clause BSD license connected March 20 and adopted the much restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPL), a fork was ever 1 of the astir apt outcomes. At the clip of the licence change, Redis Labs CEO Rowan Trollope said helium “wouldn’t beryllium amazed if Amazon sponsors a fork,” arsenic the caller licence requires commercialized agreements to connection Redis-as-a-service, making it incompatible with the modular explanation of “open source.” It’s worthy taking a fewer steps backmost to look astatine however we got to this point. Redis, aft all, is among the astir fashionable information stores and astatine the halfway of galore ample commercialized and open-source deployments. A little past of Redis Throughout its lifetime, Redis has really seen a fewer licensing disputes. Redis laminitis Salvatore Sanfilippo launched the task successful 2009 nether the BSD license, partially due to the fact that helium wanted to beryllium capable to make a commercialized fork astatine immoderate constituent and besides due to the fact that “the BSD [license] allows for galore branches to compete, with antithetic licensing and improvement ideas,” helium said successful a caller Hacker News comment. After Redis rapidly gained popularity, Garantia became the archetypal large Redis work provider. Garantia rebranded to RedisDB successful 2013, and Sanfilippo and the assemblage pushed back. After immoderate time, Garantia yet changed its sanction to Redis Labs and then, successful 2021, to Redis. Sanfilippo joined Redis Labs successful 2015 and aboriginal transferred his IP to Redis Labs/Redis, earlier stepping down from the institution successful 2020. That was lone a mates of years aft Redis changed however it licenses its Redis Modules, which see visualization tools, a lawsuit SDK and more. For those modules, Redis archetypal went with the Apache License with the added Commons Clause that restricts others from selling and hosting these modules. At the time, Redis said that contempt this alteration for the modules, “the licence for open-source Redis was ne'er changed. It is BSD and volition ever stay BSD.” That committedness lasted until a fewer weeks ago. Redis’ Trollope reiterated successful a connection what helium had told maine erstwhile helium archetypal announced these changes, emphasizing however the ample unreality vendors profited from the open-source mentation and are escaped to participate a commercialized statement with Redis. “...

Valkey: A Redis Fork With a Future SEATTLE — The free license that Redis offers under its new license is not a great deal, says the lead contributor to the Valkey project, the new Redis fork backed by The Linux Foundation. “So a lot of people just look at the fact that the new license that Redis is putting out is free for end users,” said Madelyn Olson, a former core contributor to the Redis project, in an interview for The New Stack Makers. The episode, which included Valkey maintainers from Google and Oracle. was recorded at the Open Source Summit in April. “But what they’re really not seeing is that all of the contributors that currently worked on Redis often won’t work with that new license,” Olson said. The key to any open source project is the people behind it. So far, Valkey has emerged fast as a fork with a future. It has 13,000 stars, 43 contributors, and technologists leading the project from major cloud services. A contributor summit is in the works. ‘Continuity Is Really the Top Priority’ Valkey, an in-memory data store, emerged after Redis, the company, moved the code base to a more restrictive license. “Beginning with version 7.2.4, Redis will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1),” wrote Joab Jackson in The New Stack. “Older versions will remain open source.” Now a Valkey maintainer, Olson works at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Her work reflects the new project’s importance for the world’s largest tech companies, as evident in Google and Oracle’s roles as maintainers on Valkey. Joining Olson for our conversation were Ping Xie, a Google staff software engineer, and Dmitry Polyakovsky, a consulting member of Oracle’s technical staff. “A lot of the big companies are looking for free open source permissive licenses to work with and contribute to,” Olson said. “So the end user will really just see less contributions to the product that they’re currently using. And they’ll see slower bug fixes, slower momentum overall.” Now the work turns to continuity, modules such as one for Rust, and the core engine itself to keep performance strong. “Continuity is really the top priority, we want to make sure there’s a smooth path for everyone who is currently on Redis 7.2.5,” Xie said. Valkey will use a more incremental patch version, Olson said. The next major release will come by the end of the year. The goal is one major version per year, with a three-year maintenance cycle. Modules and the Client Ecosystem Valkey will emphasize modules to extend its overall functionality. Valkey has a rich ecosystem of various libraries, but you have to work in C. Developing modules in Rust could help attract more engineers. “Redis itself has been supporting modules for about six years,”  Polyakovsky said. “There have been some modules built and, ironically, some of them were licensed differently. So you couldn’t use them as easily as a Redis itself. But I think there can ...

Redis is no longer open source Redis is a popular key-value database, typically in-memory, used for diverse purposes like content caching and message broker. With over 14 years of existence, the database was famous to have the BSD open-source license, and became quite the industry standard. A few days ago Redis announced that it would change the License terms from open-source to a proprietary license.(https://lnkd.in/das_qsWg) in order to make their hosted product more profitable. As an open source product with over a decade of existence, Redis acquired contributions from around 700 developers. Some of them were employees of cloud provider competitors, and surely don't agree with their code being delivered as proprietary. As a consequence hosting your own Redis will soon be a thing of the past. Some Linux distributions also will have to get rid of it. What are your thoughts on this redis change? #software

Great move by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to continue supporting #redis community and the Valkey project. "We are adding Valkey support to our ElastiCache and MemoryDB managed database services, which are built on open source Redis and are compatible with open source Redis versions 7.0 and earlier. Our engineers will also continue contributing to the open source Valkey project to help keep it secure, add new features, and innovate. In the meantime, the license change does not impact existing or new applications for ElastiCache and MemoryDB and no change is required from AWS customers." https://lnkd.in/ezAvTHNr

ICYMI Redis will now be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). If this change means you need to consider alternatives to Redis, check out this blog >> https://ter.li/lnapcg

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No more #opensource Redis? Database/layer provider ends use of the open-source BSD licence in favour of a more restrictive dual "Redis Source Available License" and "Server Side Public License (#SSPL)." Here's what that means, tentatively, for paying customers, developers, and the community. 👉 https://lnkd.in/e47-g_eM #softwarelicensing #oss #redis

"Starting with #Redis 7.4, all future versions of Redis software will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSAL 2) and the Server Side Public License (SSLPv1)" (instead of BSD license) https://lnkd.in/gEJXyBE6