@lanodan

> so I casually gave a hand,

Yeah, I saw, like Alpine build stuff. I looked through the commits.

> by a pretty wide margin

Eh, it's been a month, there are no wide margins yet. It kinda struck me that DeVault is trying to yell "FIRST!" and then insulting the people running the other forks, kicking up a stink, etc.

> Redis OSS had quite few things to fix there like allowing de-vendoring

Yeah, I mean, I'm probably gonna end up running one fork or the other; if antirez isn't running it for years now, it's not like Redis-branded Redis is magical or blessed somehow.

> And as far as licences go, I think the LGPL offers a decent level of protection against what happened with Redis without being a PITA in terms of license compatibility with existing software.

If it is really different from BSD, I'm not sure how, but I also haven't looked at it very carefully and that was years ago. (I essentially took :rms:'s word for it that it was a somewhat non-committal GPL designed to be compatible enough with BSD/MIT that code could be linked, so I never had too much of a use for it.)

> *I take the Linux Foundation as a the biggest linux-invested corporations in a trenchcoat, rather than something at least a bit independent from them, or at least a bit more ~democratic.

Well, sure. "Slightly preferable to the Apache Software Foundation" is accurate but not exactly a ringing endorsement. But the people that started the fork expressed the intent to run it as a community-lead project, and I have about as much reason to take them at their word as I do any other random hackers. Apparently Redict went out of its way to break API compatibility by renaming everything, and that appears to be most of what has happened so far (after which DeVault shows up and says "LOOK AT HOW MANY LINES HAVE CHANGED, NOW WHICH FORK SHOULD YOU PICK" instead of potentially reconciling changes between forks and potentially merging them; DeVault being disingenuous and combative and breaking things for no reason kind of put me off, I think I'd trust a random hacker somewhat more than him).