Welp. It's official. #Redis is no longer #OSS While I wasn't a contributor to the core, I presented on it dozens of times, talked to thousands, and wrote a book about it.I probably wouldn't have done any of that with that kind of license.Very disappoin...
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https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
Redis has been sponsoring the bulk of development alongside a dynamic community of developers eager to contribute. However, the majority of Redis’ commercial sales are channeled through the largest cloud service providers, who commoditize Redis’ investments and its open source community
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Amazon is sucking up all the good will and hard work of open source projects, giving nothing in return, and companies are getting sick of it, no surprises here
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@linux_mclinuxface a downturn in the industry really erased a lot of goodwill but exposed an issue with the business models of opencore/freemium. lots of projects got founded on the basis that they would launch off a foss codebase and “turn on the profit” later on (somehow). Now I’m seeing quite a few scramble to close up their code. I’m not pushing patches anymore, just writing my crappy projects.
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@rmq @doboprobodyne @linux_mclinuxface @lucasmz "backed by Snap" made me assume Canonical and not Snap Inc.
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@mosen I’m not sure the ‘downturn’ (which, imho, is self imposed) caused this: It started way before.
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@linux_mclinuxface won't be using #redis in my projects anymore. Memcached is a FOSS, #BSD licensed alternative that's supported by devs from Netflix. Looking to replace redis usage with memcached.
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@kta that might work in some cases but last I checked memcached had a much more limited data model. If it works for you, go for it though.
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@linux_mclinuxface There is an option called Garnet recently discussed on HN. Shows impressive performance:
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@joelp the timing on that is extremely curious considering MS had blog post ready when they announced the change to Redis 🧐
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How about "no", CLAassistant?
(From an 2019 doc change PR that never got merged)
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The #FreeSoftware fork of #Redis is already up: https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
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From one of the non-Redis Inc leadership team members before the license change:
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If you haven't been following the PR, it's wild.
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@linux_mclinuxface good grief. This is rage inducing. If I had contributed to the redis source I would be very mad.
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Kyle Davisreplied to Jeremy Stephens on last edited by [email protected]
@viking the rage is rightful, IMHO.
Changing the license of a dependency is disruptive to many thousands of people. A lot of people are just burning hours either switching to something else or talking to legal counsel to see if these non-open licenses are in any way acceptable.
Such waste heat.
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@osslate It’s a weird one. It’s easy to forget about Snap Inc.
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@rmq @osslate @doboprobodyne @lucasmz
' It’s easy to forget about Snap Inc.'
This is such an ever-so-nerdy bubble here.
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Kyle Davisreplied to Kyle Davis on last edited by [email protected]
That was quick.
Linux Foundation launches #Valkey, a continuation of development from #Redis 7.2.4 with the same BSD 3-Clause license.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community
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@linux_mclinuxface looks like Valkey already has lots of backing from big corporations. I have to wonder how good of a business decision it was for Redis to change licenses.
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@viking It's hard to beat something that is truly open
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@linux_mclinuxface Are there forks?
