On Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:09:08 PM EST Chris Murphy wrote:
> And that is the most central problem with the license, and why it
> isn't free for everyone all of the time. The idea free licenses can
> have gray areas where they aren't free, pollutes the free license
> ecosystem with confusion. And it burdens users who aren't sure of
> their usage with having to hire a lawyer to find out. So the answer
> is, it's not a free license. We can't have people downloading Fedora
> who use it for building a service and then they end up snared in a
> lawsuit because 'oh fuck we're using MongoDB! and we didn't know about
> this! we thought Fedora was only free software!'

Even taken to an extreme, it would likely be sufficient to link to Fedora's 
sources on any software used to provide MongoDB as a service, assuming their 
service itself is free software.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

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