[reconditerose]

Hi, co-creator of Valkey here. I'm not that worried about it. There are a lot of people who have tried to maintain Redis folks, my employer AWS has one such fork I know very well, and they quickly become extremely hard to maintain with your own code. These aren't problems Redis wants to solve, they are off in their GenAI space building fancy extensions. For the next year or so it might be a real concern, but we are thinking long term, and I don't think it'll matter for long.

So, we thought the best approach was to stick with the license and get us into a vendor neutral foundation. We haven't ruled out LGPL, we just didn't make the change unilaterally and as a foundational part of the fork. We just want to keep building :)

[mariusor]

Any idea why this fork has the support of the linux foundation in favour of any other?

[wmf]

Valkey is run by the companies that control the Linux Foundation.

[stephenr]

The only other fork from current redis that I'm aware of is Redict, and I'd imagine drew devault's name alone brings enough baggage and bad memories that a lot of people (users and contributors) will avoid it.

This fork being run by existing contributors to the project helps a lot too.

[mariusor]

No matter one's opinions on Drew, I think his work as a maintainer and his commitment to open-source speak for themselves.

Your second point is actually the answer I was looking for, thank you.