Redis Inc seeks control over Rust Redis-rs library, talk of trademark concerns

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  1. redis-rs

    Redis library for rust

    Seems like this was resolved with Redis Inc backing off prior to the HN post. From @mortensi roughly 4 hours prior to the post: https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419#issuecommen...

    > Thanks everybody for the feedback. Speaking on behalf of Redis Inc., we want to find a way to collaborate to best support the community and our customers. The objective is to ensure predictable releases for a Rust client library, manage issues and escalations promptly, as well as support the best we have to offer without forking the library and competing with the client library project. After discussing this with @nihohit in this thread and based on the whole conversation, we want to work together. We have already identified initial areas from which we could start.

    > We have no issues keeping the project name as it is without a transition to Redis. We also have no problems with continuing to call this library "redis-rs". There is no intention to claim ownership of the client library's name, source code, or the crate’s package registry.

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  3. valkey

    A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.

    Yes, nobody says that there's something illegal here. Were it so, Redis is high enough profile project for someone to take a legal action.

    But this is a takeover that is slowly draining the value from the community and directing it to private pockets. E.g. Redis is now source-available.

    There are still compatible alternatives: https://valkey.io/ or https://keydb.dev/, both BSD-licensed.

    I wish RethinkDB was more alive :-\

  4. Redis

    For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.

    https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13670

    Created a PR to add this into the context.

    Feel free to comment on it.

    Also, calling other bystanders to add other missing pieces to the history.

  5. KeyDB

    A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

    Yes, nobody says that there's something illegal here. Were it so, Redis is high enough profile project for someone to take a legal action.

    But this is a takeover that is slowly draining the value from the community and directing it to private pockets. E.g. Redis is now source-available.

    There are still compatible alternatives: https://valkey.io/ or https://keydb.dev/, both BSD-licensed.

    I wish RethinkDB was more alive :-\

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