Towards Excellent Defect Management

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Tue Sep 14 21:45:57 BST 2021


On 9/14/21 11:43, Julian / xyquadrat wrote:
> 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,

That's more or less my opinion on the matter.


Nate


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