How it started: "This change has zero effect on the Redis core license, which is and will always be licensed under the 3-Clause-BSD."How it's going: "Beginning today, all future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses. Startin...

[amye@hachyderm.io]

@adrianco @msw we can't all get opentofu, someone's got to get a goofy name

[msw@mstdn.social]

@amye @adrianco "OpenTofu" has received mixed response. Valkey will too.

Naming things is hard. All the good ones are taken.

My suggestion was FreeAir (where legend has it that "Air" meant "Air Isn't Redis"). But it didn't win much support.
https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/9#issuecomment-2021064087

[msw@mstdn.social]

@amye @adrianco More about the naming story is over on the other site.

https://twitter.com/reconditerose/status/1773390461610467410

[amye@hachyderm.io]

@msw @adrianco all the good ones are taken, indeed.

[msw@mstdn.social]

@amye @adrianco I think Valkey is a pretty good name. I liked "Odis" too. Both are short and playful. Like the "free puppy" that FOSS can so often be.

[emaste@mastodon.social]

@msw @amye @adrianco I like Valkey too. It maybe doesn't pass the "telephone test" but nobody uses telephones so that doesn't matter.

[msw@mstdn.social]

@emaste @amye @adrianco things that don't pass the
"telephone test":

Flickr
PyPy vs. PyPI (unless you very intentionally say "Pie Pee Eye" for the second one)
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[sortova@fosstodon.org]

@msw @amye @adrianco FastCacheNow!

[msw@mstdn.social]

@sortova @amye @adrianco Who did this? https://fastcachenow.com/

[msw@mstdn.social]

@jzb @gianarb didn’t have to wait that long…