[Evergreen-dev] Redis relicensing

[Bill Erickson]

Thanks for the heads up, Galen.

I'll give KeyDB a once-over and see how it goes.

-b

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM Galen Charlton via Evergreen-dev <
evergreen-dev at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Redis Ltd. has announced that future versions of Redis, starting with 7.4,
> will have its license changed from the 3-clause BSD license to a
> dual-license:
>
> * Redis Source Available License v2 (RSALv2)
> * Server Side Public License v1 (SSPLv1).
>
> Neither of these are open source licenses per the OSI or free software
> license, nor are they accepted by Debian.  It is also currently unclear to
> me whether clause 13 of the SSPL would present an actual problem for
> entities that host Redis as a component of hosting Evergreen.
>
> The relicensing announcement was made only yesterday and I have not yet
> seen a response from the Debian maintainer of the redis packages, but an
> RFP to package KeyDB (a Redis fork) did show up [4].
>
> Note that at present I do not know if KeyDB will serve as a drop-in
> replacement of Redis for OpenSRF's purposes, although they state that they
> aim to preserve upstream compatibility (and deliver better performance).
> They do operate a PPA for Debian and Ubuntu packages.
>
> That said, it may be premature to write off Redis itself, but we will
> clearly need to keep an eye on the licensing situation.
>
> [1] https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
> [2] https://redis.com/legal/rsalv2-agreement/
> [3] https://redis.com/legal/server-side-public-license-sspl/
> [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/03/msg00275.html
> [5] https://docs.keydb.dev/docs/ppa-deb/
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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