Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork

Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: 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. The Linux Foundation went public today with their intent to fork Valkey as an open-source alternative to the Redis in-memory store. Due to the Redis licensing changes, Valkey is forking from Redis 7.2.4 and will maintain a BSD 3-clause license. Google, AWS, Oracle, and others are helping form this new Valkey project.

The Linux Foundation press release shares: "To continue improving on this important technology and allow for unfettered distribution of the project, the community created Valkey, an open source high performance key-value store. Valkey supports the Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD platforms. In addition, the community will continue working on its existing roadmap including new features such as a more reliable slot migration, dramatic scalability and stability improvements to the clustering system, multi-threaded performance improvements, triggers, new commands, vector search support, and more. Industry participants, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. are supporting Valkey. They are focused on making contributions that support the long-term health and viability of the project so that everyone can benefit from it."

Weird, isn't it?

[ebunga]

The only thing needed to make an open source project viable where commercial companies are willing to contribute major features, is to not let a single commercial company hold all the keys to the kingdom in such a way they can wall off all future development.

Re:

[Thoth Ptolemy]

Sounds like socialism.

Considering I get socialized retirement checks from service in an entirely socialized industry, I support this.

Bound To Happen

[NoWayNoShapeNoForm]

The history of Redis dual-licensing issues/challenges and cloud/server deployments makes for some interesting yet complicated reading.

At least there is now an opportunity to move beyond that hassle and get back to improving the code for all to use.

nice

[TwistedGreen]

Called it

Antirez can still suck it

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[awwshit]

Antirez has not been part of redis for a while now.

Remember Redis?

[bill_mcgonigle]

Hey, do you guys remember Redis?

Isn't that what Valkey used to be called?

Yeah, they had some kind of licensing problem years ago before it was forked.

I think they still have some corporate clients maintaining the old version on legacy systems.

Yeah, not much development since Oracle acquired them.
 

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[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

Redis? No, but I remember Redhat.

Primaried

[ZipK]

It feels like Redis got primaried.

AGPL in an alternate reality

[Skinkie]

I wonder how this would have played out if Redis Corp would have relicensed towards AGPL. If Linux Foundation would have then forked towards the earlier, more liberal, BSD license that may have had some serious political impact, as a "non-profit" serving their donating members, assisting on removing a business model for the original copyright holder. In our reality Linux Foundation is still on the moral highground.

Precisely as expected.

[RockDoctor]

And in the expected timeframe too.

The next step is to make sure that "Redis" is a name written into the annals of infamy alongside such luminaries as Santa Cruz Operation (hey, I considered buying their Unix back in the day, along with considering the Mark Williams Company offering ; then I read, in ink on dead-tree, about some mad Finn porting Minix to the 386 ...), PR expert and financier Jeremy Epstein, and painter Adolf Hitler.

Has Redis' share price (does it have such a thing? I've no idea.) cratered