Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to [1]the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like [2]Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced today that with the Redis 8.0 release, they are adding AGPLv3 to the licensing mix.

One year after this software licensing fiasco, Redis has decided to add the OSI-approved AGPL license for the Redis 8.0 release that debuted today. [3]The merge to Redis Git today adds AGPLv3 alongside keeping RSALv2 and SSPLv1 as options.

Details on this shift via the [4]Redis.io blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-Valkey

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redict-7.3-Redis-Fork

[3] https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/d65102861f51af48241f607afa678c4c2a0f894c

[4] https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/