On Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:32:38 PM EST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 16:21, John Harris <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > For the last time, please move this to the legal list, a blog, or your own > tweet stream. This isn't the list for non-lawyers to discuss how they think > law, licenses and contracts 'work' just because it looks just like COBOL. Please do not suggest non-free platforms such as Twitter. Most users do not know how to use such a platform without running non-free JavaScript, which may restrict their Four Freedoms. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/
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