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(a)splentity.com> 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.
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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
Splentity
https://splentity.com/