Redis is open source again

1. Redis

   1 393 69,861 9.8 C

   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.

   

   This exchange makes me sad. I know we can do better.

   I don't understand why so many people think that it's impossible to have open source in your heart while working for a big company in your day job. I don't understand why people who have dedicated a lot of their time and emotional energy to keep open source ways alive and help build a community effort are attacked because they work for a company that needs to be made the villain in the narrative.

   Of course Redis is free to copy BSD licensed code that Valkey contributors add to the project [1]. I only wish that the blog post about this advancement in Redis would give some credit, rather than claiming "We also improved the performance of CRC64 calculations" [2].

   We can all do better, and engage with one another with mutual respect and admiration for what has been freely given.

   [1] https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13638

   [2] https://redis.io/blog/redis-8-0-m03-is-out-even-more-perform...

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. llama3

   2 30 28,807 7.9 Python

   The official Meta Llama 3 GitHub site

   

   If you'd like to have Llama 3, which Meta contunually states is open source, despite Llama 3 not currently using an open souce license, do the same:

   https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/issues/156

4. redis-client

   3 1 137 8.0 Ruby

   Simple low level client for Redis 6+ (by redis-rb)

   

   > Enterprise customers can't use software under AGPL because it risks infecting their IP

   This is factually untrue. If you want to link an AGPL blob into you app and ship it to customers, sure. In the vastly more common case where you're using a permissive client library[0] to connect to an AGPL server, there's no risk whatsoever.

   At most, you might need to make your local changes to that server available to clients if they connect to it directly, as opposed to hosting a cloud SaaS setup where everything is internal to you. However, that's not the worst thing in the world. "Oh no, we improved a Free server our company depends on, and we have to share those improvements so that the person who gave us the server for free can also benefit from them" is pretty hard for me to sympathize with.

   This is vastly more business-friendly than the non-FOSS SSPL.

   [0]https://github.com/redis-rb/redis-client/blob/master/LICENSE...

5. minio

   4 116 53,514 9.6 Go

   MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.

   

   MinIO also switched to AGPLv3 a while back, and they stated that “the AGPL license requires that all software connecting with MinIO be 100% open source for you/your users not to be in violation of the license.”[^1] Since Redis and MinIO are somewhat similar, (Both can be used to store and retrieve data. One uses a custom protocol. The other one uses an S3-compatible API.) Should I assume that this statement also applies to Redis?

   [^1]: https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/13308#issuecomment-929...

6. golang_learning

   5 3 4 8.2 Go

   Golang Learnings. (by hsnice16)

   

   In time, I built this - https://github.com/hsnice16/golang_learning/tree/main/One2N/...

7. miniredis

   6 2 52 0.0 Python

   A very tiny clone of Redis for experimenting with PubSub

   

   Great to see this. 12 years ago I wrote https://github.com/rcarmo/miniredis during a very slow weekend where I both wanted to get a feel for the internals of how Redis worked and have a little PubSub server I could call my own.

   I spent the entire weekend poring over the C code and found it some of the most beautiful C I'd ever read (ever since the heady years of SunOS), and now I feel I should at least go and update miniredis to asyncio/Python 3--for kicks...

8. valkey

   7 32 22,144 9.9 C

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

   

   Well Valkey has more commits to their repository then Redis does, and more contributors. So it appears to be active.

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

   https://github.com/redis/redis

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

10. toc

    8 39 1,742 9.5 Go

    ⚖️ The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the technical governing body of the CNCF Foundation.

    

11. NATS

    9 125 17,440 9.9 Go

    High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

    

12. anaconda

    10 15 576 9.9 Python

    System installer for Fedora, RHEL and other distributions (by rhinstaller)

    

    The LWN article is examining the 976 commits made after the 7.0.0 release. I don't think you had any commits during that time?

    As is typical for software projects, early authors will be disproportionately represented in revision histories. I am still the #4 contributor to the Anaconda installer [1] originally used by Red Hat Linux, then RHEL, then Fedora, and others, despite not contributing to the code base for two decades.

    [1] https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/graphs/contributors

13. spring-tools

    11 1 903 9.8 Java

    The next generation of tooling for Spring Boot, including support for Cloud Foundry manifest files, Concourse CI pipeline definitions, BOSH deployment manifests, and more... - Available for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia

    

    > Because a big company like Amazon has produced almost no open source work

    This may have been true a decade ago, but things are quite different now.

    > compared to how much it has benefited from open source.

    This is the nature of digital public goods. We are all going to disproportionately benefit from digital public goods relative to what can be produced as new digital public goods. No one will ever, EVER be able to "contribute proportionately" given the endless bounty of software made freely available for all to use.

    > If that was the standard, so many of AWS services will spend all their reinvent time giving credits to their source OSS projects.

    The observant should notice a change in this over the years. For example, the announcement for Amazon Q Code Transformation [1] acknowledged that OpenRewrite was used under the covers, even though it was an implementation detail that didn't have to be disclosed...

    Of course these disclosures and good-faith intentions to engage on open-source community terms under long-established community norms don't always work out the way we hope. [2]

    [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/upgrade-your-java-applicati...

    [2] https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/issues/1443

14. CMONGO

    12 1 123 - C++

    MongoDB for Tencent Cloud

    

    AWS never offered the AGPLv3 licensed version of the MongoDB server as part of any managed service. There were large cloud providers in China that _did_ offer MongoDB as a service. They also provided the corresponding source code [1]. Despite signs that they were complying with the obligations of the license, they had the SSPL drafted anyway.

    Because once it was clear that software as a service was a compelling model, it was no longer appealing to give everyone the permissions needed to offer the software as part of a service (as AGPLv3 was always designed to do).

    Changing the license seemingly worked, as a partnership was eventually announced [2].

    [1] https://github.com/Tencent/CMONGO

    [2] https://www.mongodb.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/tenc...

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