Redis licensing change

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Problem to solve

Redis has changed their license away from 3-clause BSD. Will Gitlab (and Gitlab self-hosted users) be affected by this change? I understand that the current version of redis used in Gitlab is a few versions behind the latest upstream so I'm not sensing an immediate need to rush into anything just yet.

Latest update: #452303 (comment 1836312111)

Resources

1. Redis license change PR https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13157
2. Redis forks
   1. Valkey https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey  BSD-3-Clause license Redis 7.2 based
   2. Redict https://redict.io/ LGPL, Redis 7.2 based
   3. KeyDB https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB BSD-3-Clause license Maintained by Snapchat, Redis 6 based
3. Community forum topic https://forum.gitlab.com/t/how-will-redis-source-available-and-sspl-license-change-affect-gitlab/102423