{"id":123912,"date":"2025-05-02T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/proekt-redis-vernulsya-na-ispolzovanie-otkrytoj-liczenzii-predstavlen-redis-8-0"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T13:05:08","slug":"proekt-redis-vernulsya-na-ispolzovanie-otkrytoj-liczenzii-predstavlen-redis-8-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/proekt-redis-vernulsya-na-ispolzovanie-otkrytoj-liczenzii-predstavlen-redis-8-0","title":{"rendered":"The Redis project has returned to using an open license. Redis 8.0 has been released.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Redis Ltd has announced an update to the licensing policy of the project. Starting with the release of Redis 8.0, the project's code has become available under the AGPLv3 open license. This shift to an open license was made possible by the return of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of the Redis database, to the company. After leaving Redis Ltd, Salvatore developed a set of vector extensions (Vector Sets) that he was ready to contribute to Redis, but he wanted the code he created to be released under an open license. Salvatore was able to persuade his colleagues of the merits of restoring the open nature of the project and improving community engagement. <\/p>\n

Rowan Trollope, the director of Redis Ltd, stated that the transition to proprietary licenses made last year achieved its goal, as AWS and Google have established a fork, begun participating in collaborative development, and sharing their past contributions. However, the change in licensing harmed the company's relationships with the community, which it is now trying to rebuild by returning to supplying the code under an open license. <\/p>\n

After the transition to proprietary licenses, the development of the open codebase of Redis continued in forks such as Valkey (a fork developed with the involvement of Amazon, Google, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap), Redict (a fork by the author of the Sway user interface and the Hare language), Garnet (a Microsoft database compatible with Redis), and KeyDB (a high-performance fork of Redis 5 by Snapchat). In the repositories for Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 41, RHEL 10, Azure Linux 3, Arch Linux, and Alpine 3.20, the Redis package has been replaced with the Valkey fork. <\/p>\n

Initially, Redis was offered under a permissive BSD license, which allowed modifications without disclosure. It later transitioned to proprietary licenses RSALv2 (Redis Source Available License v2) and SSPLv1 (Server Side Public License v1). Starting with Redis 8, the project code is available under the AGPLv3 license, which includes restrictions for applications that enable the operation of network services. When using AGPL components in the operation of network services, developers are required to provide users with the source code of all changes made to these components, even if the underlying software is not distributed and is used solely within internal infrastructure for service operation. The AGPLv3 license is compatible with GPLv3 but conflicts with the GPLv2 license. <\/p>\n

The previous licenses, SSPL and RSAL, led to discrimination against certain categories of users, which prevented them from being considered open or free. Both licenses are similar in intent, with the difference being that the SSPL license is based on the copyleft AGPLv3 license, while the RSAL license is based on the permissive BSD license. The RSAL license allows use, modification, distribution, and integration of code into applications, except in cases where these applications are commercial or used to provide managed paid services. The SSPL license additionally requires that the same license be applied not only to the application code but also to the source texts of all components involved in providing the cloud service. <\/p>\n

Simultaneously with the announcement of the license change, the release of Redis 8.0 was presented. However, despite the announcement of the release's availability, only a release candidate is currently available in the repository, and the link to download Redis 8.0 on the project's website leads to a page with a general description of the installation process. The release note also currently only mentions the release of 8.0-RC1. <\/p>\n

Key changes in Redis 8.0: <\/p>\n