The article is right; I do not like ddevault, and refuse to use his software on my machines as a result. I will never pay him money.

The article is also right that Redis is kinda 'complete' and merely staying the course and slowly maintaining bugs/CVEs/etc. is a vaild type of fork.

If Redict happens to become the standard 'open' alternative (eg, OpenSearch, OpenTofu, etc), I'll suck it up and use his fork. We need less SSPL BS and more just 'complete' software. I may not like that jerk, but I don't like the jerks who made the re-licensing decision much, much more.

First-party post with more details: https://redict.io/posts/2024-03-22-redict-is-an-independent-...

(Also, ddevault does not maintain wlroots or sway any more. emersion took over them in 2020.)

Why would this be the fork that thrives? This fork also relicenses the code. Would we not expect the contributors outside Redis the company to coalesce behind a fork that doesn’t change the license?

This sounds Orwellian to me. Redict was originally created under the name Redis? Redis is the Fork? We have always been at war with Redis? Y'all haven't earned that level of respect yet.

No thanks. I’ll just stick to whatever the last working version of Redis was before all the drama (looks like 7.2.4?) and use Garnet when I need scale.

Does this mean that Redict is, proper to the license changes, identical to Redis and that it is a drop in relevance placement for Redis going forward?

>>[...] identical to Redis and that it is a drop in relevance placement for Redis going forward?

I think only identical to Redis 7.2.4, and will ignore Redis development going forward.