Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork

[QwertyChouskie]

Has un-open-sourcing a project ever worked for anyone? Especially a project this big with this many stakeholders.

Sure, they'll probably get a little bit more short-term profit, but that will run dry as Redis loses both its installbase and mindshare.

[david-nk]

You can provide support/warranty for a fee, and still remain GPL.

Yeah, but the cloud providers likely wouldn't be interested in that. They are the ones selling support/warranty and Redis wants part of that profit.

[Luke_Wolf]

I'm disappointed they went to that and then didn't go to the next logical step of Valkeyrie

[tildearrow]

No, they specifically wanted to get large cloud providers to pay them and that would not have been required by using GPL.

You can provide support/warranty for a fee, and still remain GPL.

[Palu Macil]

Source available... Couldn't they go GPL?

No, they specifically wanted to get large cloud providers to pay them and that would not have been required by using GPL.

[tildearrow]

Source available... Couldn't they go GPL?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork

Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-Valkey