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.
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