On Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:09:08 PM EST Chris Murphy wrote: > And that is the most central problem with the license, and why it > isn't free for everyone all of the time. The idea free licenses can > have gray areas where they aren't free, pollutes the free license > ecosystem with confusion. And it burdens users who aren't sure of > their usage with having to hire a lawyer to find out. So the answer > is, it's not a free license. We can't have people downloading Fedora > who use it for building a service and then they end up snared in a > lawsuit because 'oh fuck we're using MongoDB! and we didn't know about > this! we thought Fedora was only free software!' Even taken to an extreme, it would likely be sufficient to link to Fedora's sources on any software used to provide MongoDB as a service, assuming their service itself is free software. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/
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