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Bug 928145 - dev-db/valkey: dev-db/redis fork after license change
Summary: dev-db/valkey: dev-db/redis fork after license change
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
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Reported: 2024-03-29 21:33 UTC by m1027
Modified: 2024-05-01 04:29 UTC (History)
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Description m1027 2024-03-29 21:33:28 UTC 
Hi,

please consider adding dev-db/valkey to portage.

It is a fork of dev-db/redis and currently on par with the latest version 7.2.4.

See: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey

Background: dev-db/redis is present in portage but they announced to not continue the current licensing model. Some even consider redis not to be open source anymore. Anyway, it has been forked as valkey which will continue the BSD license model. valkey has been backed by the Linux Foundation and others.

Thanks
Comment 1 Yury Zhuravlev 2024-04-01 01:15:15 UTC 
We are already working on Redict ebuilds https://bugs.gentoo.org/928119 
It's a more community-driven LGPL fork.
Comment 2 m1027 2024-04-11 17:10:21 UTC 
Just FYI, there is a pre-release now: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/tag/7.2.4-rc1

No stress. ;-)
Comment 3 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2024-04-23 14:42:26 UTC 
(In reply to Yury Zhuravlev from comment #1)
> We are already working on Redict ebuilds https://bugs.gentoo.org/928119 
> It's a more community-driven LGPL fork.

To be clear, as the (former, I guess) Redis maintainers in Gentoo, arkamar and I are happy to review a PR for valkey too. But it will ideally have someone volunteering to proxy maintain it too.