Bug 928145

Summary:	dev-db/valkey: dev-db/redis fork after license change
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	m1027 <m1027>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	arkamar, earny, hydrapolic, jaak, m1027, sam, stalkerg, steffen.weber
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=928119
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

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.