Two years after forking from Redis due to licensing changes, Valkey has maintained slightly higher commit velocity than Redis and shows greater contributor diversity. The analysis compares development metrics between the two projects, revealing Valkey's sustained community engagement despite Redis's eventual return to open source. The fork has demonstrated resilience with consistent contributor activity from multiple organizations.
Background
Redis shifted from BSD to more restrictive licenses in 2024, prompting former contributors to create Valkey as an open source fork. Redis later returned to open source but under AGPL instead of the original BSD license.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Apr 7, 2026 at 11:14 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10