In response to the change in the license for the Redis DBMS, a fork was created that will be distributed under the name Redict and will continue to develop the code base 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 that will be released under a proprietary license is not guaranteed.
The fork was founded by Drew DeVault, the author of the Sway user environment, 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, joined the work on the fork.
The Redict code license has changed from BSD to GPLv3 (the old code remains under the BSD license, but all new changes to Redict will be made under the GPLv3 license). This way, the Redict project will be able to port patches published by Redis Inc for older versions of Redis under the BSD license, but patches and changes created for Redict under the GPLv3 license will not be able to be ported to Redis. The project will also not require developers to sign an agreement on the transfer of property rights to the code, which, if they intend to change the license in the future, will require coordination of this step with each of the developers.
Source: opennet.ru
