X-Original-To: alpine-aports@lists.alpinelinux.org Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net (relay10.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.230]) by lists.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B47F831D5 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.191.22] (ip-185-64-148-140.naitways.net [185.64.148.140]) (Authenticated sender: mvertes@luca-sas.fr) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41BE224000D; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Mailinglist: alpine-aports Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.2 \(3445.102.3\)) Subject: [alpine-aports] Re: [PATCH] community/mongodb: expunge nonfree software From: Marc Vertes In-Reply-To: <20190307151730.GA2388@cirno.localdomain> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:27:18 +0100 Cc: Leonardo Arena , alpine-aports , Fabio Ribeiro , Philipp Andronov , TBK , Fabian Affolter Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20190306205813.12658-1-sir@cmpwn.com> <20190307151730.GA2388@cirno.localdomain> To: Drew DeVault X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.102.3) > Le 7 mars 2019 =C3=A0 16:17, Drew DeVault a =C3=A9crit = : >=20 > On 2019-03-07 , Leonardo Arena wrote: >> AFAIU the new license does not force you to publish your code if you >> aren't proving services to third parties and we might have people >> using it and perfectly fine with the new license. >=20 > Many people are perfectly fine with using nonfree software in general, > but Alpine Linux is a free-as-in-freedom Linux distribution. >=20 > IMO we should consider the upstream unmaintained at this point, keep = up > maintenance with versions shipped in Alpine stable releases (hopefully > they get security patches backported, but I'm not holding my breath), > and drop it from edge and Alpine 3.10. We should bring it back when = they > sort out their licensing issues (i.e. get FSF or OSI approval), but = not > before. I'm the maintainer of this package. Mongodb probably deserves to be = moved from community to non-free due to their licensing issue. I will = then retire from my maintainer role, as I have no interest myself to = contribute on non-free software (and I'm not affiliated whatsoever with = mongodb). For info, my alpine mongodb docker image has been downloaded = more than 5 million times (whatever it means) from docker hub, no = counting forks and so on. but it's Mongodb choice. Marc= --- Unsubscribe: alpine-aports+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-aports+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---