On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:11:11 -0400 Antoine Beaupré wrote: [...] > Okay, so what's in that `tsl/` folder? there you have *another* LICENSE > file which is a custom license written specifically (presumably by > lawyers) for timescaleDB: > > https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/3c56d3ecebbf476293ff43ded142bc9e5087f6de/tsl/LICENSE-TIMESCALE > > I haven't read the entirety of it,
Nor have I, but some parts of it look clearly non-free, as you yourself point out. > but it's pretty clear to me that this > cannot be packaged in Debian at all, ever, under that license. Just > clause 2.2 (prohibiting use in "software-as-a-service") breaks clause 6 > of the Debian free software guidelines. [...] Part of clause 2.2 states: [...] | 2.2 Prohibitions. Notwithstanding any other provision in this TSL | Agreement, You are prohibited from (i) using any TSL Licensed Software to | provide time-sharing services or database-as-a-service services, or to | provide any form of software-as-a-service or service offering in which the | TSL Licensed Software is offered or made available to third parties to | provide time-series database functions or operations, other than as part of | Your Value Added Products or Services, or (ii) copying or distributing any | TSL Licensed Software for use in any of the foregoing ways. [...] This really seems to fail DFSG#6 . There are other parts of this license which appear to be blatantly non-free, but I haven't studied them in detail... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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