Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license

Fri, 02 May 2025 12:15:59 +0000

The rise of hyperscalers like AWS and GCP has unlocked incredible speed and scale for startups and enterprises alike. But for companies rooted in open source, it has posed a fundamental challenge: how do you keep innovating and investing in OSS projects when cloud providers reap the profits and control the infrastructure without proportional contributions back to the projects that they exploit?

To counter this, companies like MongoDB and Elastic adopted SSPL to protect their business from cloud providers extracting value without reinvesting. Redis initially took a different approach, creating Redis Stack as a separate distribution with a different license for advanced features. While this safeguarded innovation, it also split the developer experience and slowed progress on core Redis. What we really needed was a way to enhance Redis at its core without maintaining two separate tracks—Redis Community Edition and Redis Stack.

Rowan Trollope on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDK

Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license