Towards Excellent Defect Management

[Julian / xyquadrat]

Most of Sentry is licensed under the BSL (Business Source License), 
which prohibits using the software to create your own commercial service 
providing "Application Monitoring Services" 
(https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/master/LICENSE).
This is not an OSI-approved license. The issue whether such a license 
would be acceptable to use in KDE infrastructure has come up a few 
months back, in the thread "is a BSL licensed service acceptable for 
sysadminy use cases?" which was started on the 26.05 
(https://marc.info/?t=162203805600001&r=1&w=2). There was no real 
conclusion in the thread.

Personally I'd be fine with BSL, since for all purposes of KDE, it is 
indeed free software, but I understand that some people would prefer a 
true OSI license. The license Sentry uses also includes a "timebomb" 
clause that releases all code under Apache 2.0 after 4 years. It seems 
difficult to use a 4 year old version of a piece of software that is 
exposed online, but it could potentially be a true FOSS option.

Cheers,
Julian / xyquadrat

On 14.09.21 19:34, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El dimarts, 14 de setembre de 2021, a les 17:23:01 (CEST), Harald Sitter va escriure:
>> It is  practically free software as far as we are concerned
> I guess this means it's not actually Free Software?
>
> Cheers,
>    Albert
>
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