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Arch Says Goodbye to Redis, Adopts Valkey (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What took them so long?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When were the license changes introduced?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Over a year ago. More specifically "March 20th, 2024" from the archlinux.org website.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it makes sense to let dust settle imo.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Fedora did it almost immediately

It is pretty clear Arch doesn't seem to car about shipping license encumbered software

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

That isn't it's primary reason for existence, and it is essentially a volunteer driven org. And so if no-one was going to adopt the package, we have to wait for the maintainer to find some time. https://archlinux.org/packages/?packager=freswa - here's some of the 167 packages maintained by the last toucher of the Redis package

Thank you Frederik!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

There is nothing illegal about packaging Redis, or other open-source projects depending on it, irrespective of jurisdiction.

And Arch has no customers to worry about if they accidentally depend on a package that restricts closed-source commercialization, not that it's a distro's job to pick on that anyway. Commercial entities are supposed to have a process that checks the licenses of all dependencies. If you know how to reliably avoid AGPL, then you know how to reliably avoid RSAL and SSPL.

And I'm liking the cognitive dissonance of dissing Redis while praising Red Hat 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

the arch maintainers are not terminally online like some of us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Prudence.