is a BSL licensed service acceptable for sysadminy use cases?

[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 <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
> > > On 2021-05-26, Anna “CyberTailor” <cyber at sysrq.in> 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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