I want to help Redis to find a good path forward (while I respect the work of everybody). I was sponsored by this company for ages, I know the core hackers there, and they are strong and are good people. I talked with the CEO and he is very interested in finding novel ways to play, so I rejoined Redis and not ValKey.
Honestly even if Redis public image has not been stellar recently, I know the people that work at Redis, many engineers are there since the start, and I believe they have huge design abilities and can do what is needed to make Redis more useful for the community.
What motivated me was the company idea that with the license change the attitude could change significantly towards providing as much value as possible back to Redis. So merging what is super useful and has been, so far, only available to paying customers, and so forth. Also the company is interested in changing attitude. All these things made me feel that my efforts were better spend doing some bridging work between the community and the company.
Honestly even if Redis public image has not been stellar recently, I know the people that work at Redis, many engineers are there since the start, and I believe they have huge design abilities and can do what is needed to make Redis more useful for the community.