Another Open Source project drops the AGPL to avoid being consumed by AWS

Posted by sitapati on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:11AM
from the zeebe.io dept.

https://zeebe.io/blog/2019/07/zeebe-community-license/

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Re:Another Open Source project drops the AGPL to avoid being... by zoobab on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:29AM (#20514495)

Yet another LICENSE that will end up being declared not Open Source compatible by the OSI.

So much for "open source".

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Re:Another Open Source project drops the AGPL to avoid being... by sitapati on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:33AM (#20514528)

The OSI might become irrelevant if all the open source projects end up using licenses that it says are not open source...

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Re:Another Open Source project drops the AGPL to avoid being... by zoobab on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:44AM (#20514625)

Plus this kind of "Not on AWS" restriction goes against Freedom0:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."

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Re:Another Open Source project drops the AGPL to avoid being... by sitapati on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:47AM (#20514649)

It's more "Not by AWS", but yeah - that makes it non-free. Stallman would be rolling over in his grave, if he wasn't still alive to write an email about it in emacs.

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