[echelon]

I wish you'd chosen a "non free" fair source or open core license from the start.

Amazon has stolen enormous wealth from you and your collaborators.

People cheer for the hyperscalers even though AWS and GCP are not at all open source themselves, charge absurd margin, and do everything in their power to lock you in.

It's really unfortunate.

Thank you for Redis.

Hopefully AI gives them extra competition. There doesn't seem to be a moat for them yet apart from distribution. Hopefully that holds. The world needs competition and less concentration of power.

[inigyou]

In order to really leverage a nonfree (proprietary) or more-free (AGPL/SSPL) license you have to have a substantial thing to protect. If you try to protect something trivial, your competition will just implement it themselves, unless your price is low enough to make that not worth it. Redis is relatively trivial, it is a REmote DIctionary Service. Amazon could have written their own Redis quite easily.

They didn't, because the idea is sufficiently non-obvious, but ideas are protected by patents, not copyright.

Even RMS recommended using LGPL in some cases to maximize overall freedom by not making your competitors copy it. In the case of Redis, GPL probably would've maximised freedom (but not revenue) as Amazon still could've used it and released any changes they made.

Valkey has diverged from Redis, gaining features like vector search and multithreading.

[antirez]

Thanks, I believe that as a whole choosing the BSD created a more positive effect, so I'm happy with that. It is just that it is really unfair to read a comment where people use ValKey to accuse you of AI slop :D It means that our community, and this site itself, is at this point really low quality. This will in turn discourage the many great folks that are here. A replacement is needed. But TLDR, I would release Redis again with the BSD license if I could go back in time.