The Linux Foundation hosts Valkey, a Redis fork backed by major cloud providers, due to Redis Labs adopting SSPL.

The Linux Foundation will host Valkey, a Redis fork backed by major cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap. This comes after Redis Labs adopted the Server Side Public License (SSPL), which made Redis-as-a-service incompatible with the standard "open source" definition. Valkey maintains a permissive BSD license, allowing more branches and competition.

March 31, 2024
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