Re: is a BSL licensed service acceptable for sysadminy use cases?

2021-05-28 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Freitag, 28. Mai 2021 12:36:35 CEST Andrius Štikonas wrote:
> 2021 m. gegužės 28 d., penktadienis 11:25:49 BST Harald Sitter rašė:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:43 AM Sune Vuorela  wrote:
> > > On 2021-05-26, Anna “CyberTailor”  wrote:
> > > >> After 36 months, the code becomes Apache-2.0 licensed (the conversion
> > > >> period)> > > 
> > > > So you can use old sentry versions, which are open source.
> > > 
> > > +1. I think we should support free and open source software.
> > 
> > I do too. I'm curious though: How does using the 4 year old software
> > support the software more than using the eventually 4 year old
> > software?
> 
> By the way, isn't it 3 year old software. That probably doesn't
> fundamentally change the discussion. Although, if you use Debian stable or
> Centos, you probably are using a lot of 3 year old software.

Sure, but in Debian and Centos security fixes (for officially maintained 
packages) are backported.

Are security fixes backported for the now Apache-2.0 licensed versions of 
Sentry?

Regards,
Ingo


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Re: is a BSL licensed service acceptable for sysadminy use cases?

2021-05-28 Thread Andrius Štikonas
2021 m. gegužės 28 d., penktadienis 11:25:49 BST Harald Sitter rašė:
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:43 AM Sune Vuorela  wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-05-26, Anna “CyberTailor”  wrote:
> > >> After 36 months, the code becomes Apache-2.0 licensed (the conversion 
> > >> period)
> > >
> > > So you can use old sentry versions, which are open source.
> > >
> >
> > +1. I think we should support free and open source software.
> 
> I do too. I'm curious though: How does using the 4 year old software
> support the software more than using the eventually 4 year old
> software?
> 
> HS
> 
By the way, isn't it 3 year old software. That probably doesn't fundamentally
change the discussion. Although, if you use Debian stable or Centos, you 
probably
are using a lot of 3 year old software.


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Re: is a BSL licensed service acceptable for sysadminy use cases?

2021-05-28 Thread Harald Sitter
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:43 AM Sune Vuorela  wrote:
>
> On 2021-05-26, Anna “CyberTailor”  wrote:
> >> After 36 months, the code becomes Apache-2.0 licensed (the conversion 
> >> period)
> >
> > So you can use old sentry versions, which are open source.
> >
>
> +1. I think we should support free and open source software.

I do too. I'm curious though: How does using the 4 year old software
support the software more than using the eventually 4 year old
software?

HS


Re: is a BSL licensed service acceptable for sysadminy use cases?

2021-05-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2021-05-26, Anna “CyberTailor”  wrote:
>> After 36 months, the code becomes Apache-2.0 licensed (the conversion period)
>
> So you can use old sentry versions, which are open source.
>

+1. I think we should support free and open source software.

/Sune