Valkey is as much Redis as it is Valkey? Then why isn't it called "Redis"? Clearly there's a distinction or the fork would never have happened. Is Redis also as much Valkey as it is Redis?
Names signal who has control over a project, not anything about its history/implementation/license. Otherwise every piece of software that goes through a rewrite should change its name.
Projects also don’t necessarily change names when control over them changes either. It’s the Ship of Theseus kind of thing. There is no single property that would delimit when software stops being itself. And the name is hardly the most important part.
After all, the identity of ever-changing entities is ephemeral and is only in our heads.
"Valkey" is not called "Redis" because as much as the development is shared by the community, the trademark isn't.
A lot of developers and users are sticking with the community and the license instead of sticking with the trademark holder.
> Names signal who has control over a project
Trademark is a specific form of intellectual property and there are many others. I don't understand how you got to that conclusion to be honest. A restaurant in my neighborhood had to change name recently because it was too similar to a big chain, does that mean it's a different restaurant now?
