Valkey: A Redis Fork With a Future
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SEATTLE — The free license that Redis offers under its new license is not a great deal, says the lead contributor to the Valkey project, the new Redis fork backed by The Linux Foundation.
“So a lot of people just look at the fact that the new license that Redis is putting out is free for end users,” said Madelyn Olson, a former core contributor to the Redis project, in an interview for The New Stack Makers. The episode, which included Valkey maintainers from Google and Oracle. was recorded at the Open Source Summit in April.
“But what they’re really not seeing is that all of the contributors that currently worked on Redis often won’t work with that new license,” Olson said.
The key to any open source project is the people behind it. So far, Valkey has emerged fast as a fork with a future. It has 13,000 stars, 43 contributors, and technologists leading the project from major cloud services. A contributor summit is in the works.
