redict/README.md

Redict

Redict is a free software key/value database based on Redis.

What the fork?

This is a fork of Redis 7.2.4 following the announcement that Redis would switch to a non-free license.

This fork is intended to be backwards-compatible with Redis 7.2.4 and then to diverge from then onwards. It should work as a drop-in replacement for Redis 7.2.4, but compatibility with later versions of Redis is not guaranteed. The codebase has been relicensed from BSD-3-Clause to LGPL-3.0-only and will not be using a Contributor License Agreement, which prevents it a similar non-free change from ever taking place in the future of Redict.

More details to come in a later announcement.

Forking in progress...

• Rename binaries
• Update test suite
• Relicense as LGPL-3.0-only
• Update copyright headers
• REUSE for license management
• Rename source files
• Add redict:// protocol support
• Fork Redis modules API
• Rename Lua API symbols (w/compat shim)
  • Update test suite to use redict instead of redis
• Update strings
• Update symbols
• Update comments et al
• Update documentation
  • Write migration guide
• Create website
• Establish upstream processes
  • Contributing instructions
  • Code of conduct
  • Security issues
  • Continuous integration
• Ship a release

Help wanted

Join #redict on Libera Chat and say hello.