In response to the change in the licensing of the Redis DBMS, a fork has been created that will be distributed under the name Redict and will continue the development of the codebase corresponding to the release of Redis 7.2.4, the last one under the BSD license. Redict can be used as a transparent replacement for Redis 7.2.4, but compatibility with future versions of Redis, which will be developed under a proprietary license, is not guaranteed.
The fork was founded by Drew DeVault, the author of the Sway user interface, the Hare programming language, the Aerc email client, and the SourceHut collaborative development platform. Haelwenn Monnier, the author of the BadWolf browser (based on WebKitGTK) and the Pleroma platform for deploying federated social networks, has joined the development of the fork.
The license for the Redict code has been changed from BSD to GPLv3 (the old code remains under the BSD license, but all new changes in Redict will be made under the GPLv3 license). Thus, the Redict project will be able to incorporate fixes published by Redis Inc for old versions of Redis under the BSD license, but fixes and changes made for Redict under the GPLv3 license cannot be transferred back to Redis. The project will also not require developers to sign an agreement to transfer intellectual property rights to the code, which, in the case of a future licensing change, would necessitate coordination with each developer.
Source: opennet.ru
