Under pressure from #valkey, Redis goes back to open source license.
"After I joined the company, and a year of evaluating alternatives, in March 2024, we decided to move Redis to the SSPL license. This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork—but the change hurt our relationship with the Redis community. SSPL is not truly open source..."
https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/
#Redis #opensource
Scott Williams 🐧 /
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2025-05-01 17:31:48
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