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by _msw_ 3y ago
Personally, I don't find foundations to be a magic solution for this problem. There are many examples where a single company has decided to basically "fork" their way out of foundation housing and the community is left with t
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by _msw_ 3y ago
In my personal opinion, there's no good reason to have a license policy at the CNCF, or any Linux Foundation directed fund, that makes using copyleft licenses so burdensome, especially when they are as "weak" as MPL 2.0 is. I
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Personally speaking, I wish it had been OpenInfra. I think they have a stronger sense of community building, and more more intentionally make space for individuals to take leadership roles that are truly independent from their employer (mem
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by _msw_ 3y ago
> 19. How does HashiCorp now refer to the freely available versions of products that were formerly known as open source (or OSS)? > We have referred to versions of our products as either open source (OSS), Enterprise, or Cloud. Going
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by _msw_ 3y ago
If there is anything specific you believe is confusing, please provide some details and I will pass the feedback on.
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by _msw_ 3y ago
No, it didn't copy the software. That's like saying min.io copied S3 software, which would also be false. It implemented a wire protocol for interoperability purposes, similar to functionality in IBM DB2, Azure CosmosDB, FerretDB,
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Disclosure: I work for Amazon. Amazon has never offered a database service based on the MongoDB server software. Not when it was AGPLv3 nor when it was SSPLv1.
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by _msw_ 3y ago
The CLA was put in place in December of 2018 [1]. Presumably contributions made before that were under inbound=outbound terms [2], meaning the contributing author licensed their exclusive rights under MPL 2.0, which is a file-based copyleft
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by _msw_ 3y ago
> That's the Free Software slogan, not open source. The only relationship between the two is that open source can easily be relicensed into Free Software (or proprietary, or whatever.) While you are correct that the Free Software Mo
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by _msw_ 3y ago
This is true. The question to me is: does the party to whom you give the rights and authority subscribe to community-oriented FOSS license compliance principles? [1] [1] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/pri
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by _msw_ 3y ago
> But the (modified) source is available to consumers of the service either way, under the AGPL? If Amazon made an AGPLv3 licensed program available to others over a network, it would have an obligation to provide to anyone that has acce
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by _msw_ 3y ago
And this is why I think people who love Software Freedom should think twice about signing a CLA for their copyleft licensed contributions. [1] inbound=outbound license terms is a good norm for FOSS. Why should a software vendor play by diff
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by _msw_ 3y ago
> Does Amazon have any policies against offering AGPv3 software as a service? Each use of AGPLv3 licensed software has to be reviewed to ensure that the obligations of the license can be and will be met (and also screen for cases where i
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Disclosure: I work for Amazon. AWS never offered MongoDB as a managed service, or used any of their server software when it was licensed under APLv3, or SSPLv1. However, we have contributed patches to MongoDB even after their license change
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Disclosure: I work for Amazon, but I've been a copyleft advocate for a quarter century. Indeed, copyleft can be politically scary. Especially when for-profit companies co-opt copyleft to drive licensing revenue by selling alternative l
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Yes, it is natural for people to look at what's offered, see "it's free for me to use" and think that it's open source software like everything else that the broader community has worked hard to accomplish over the
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Yes, I can see why you might make this argument. [1] [1] https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/blob/master/LICENSE....
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by _msw_ 3y ago
The mission of OSI and the mission of Creative Commons are related, but that doesn't mean that the OSI should do everything that Creative Commons has done. The overlap in mission between the OSI and Creative Commons is the "approv
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by _msw_ 3y ago
While the Creative Commons has a "non-commercial use" license, a work under such a license would not qualify as a "free cultural work" [1], which is the equivalent designation as Open Source Software for non-software wor
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by _msw_ 3y ago
Back when you were at Amazon, I was at Red Hat. (disclosure: I am at Amazon now, and have been for a bit over 13 years). From my perspective when I was at Red Hat, Amazon was very much an IT consumer. Amazon was a _hugely_ important custome
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by _msw_ 4y ago
Live migration can't be used to address every type of maintenance or underlying fault in a non-disruptive way.
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by _msw_ 4y ago
Disclosure: I work for Amazon, and in the past I worked directly on EC2. From the FAQ: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/ Q: How does EC2 perform maintenance? AWS regularly performs routine hardware, power, and netw
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by _msw_ 4y ago
Here's a comment that I made in a past thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650082
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by _msw_ 5y ago
Indeed. I was only saying what I would _like_ to see...
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by _msw_ 5y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but I don't work on the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. I have my own very long held opinions about Free and Open Source software, and I am only speaking for myself. To me, the AGPLv3 license isn&#x27
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by _msw_ 5y ago
ICYMI, Amazon Linux includes versions of Ghostscript that are licensed under AGPLv3 (the license changed at version 9.07). [1] AGPLv3 licensed software is also permitted for use within the company in some circumstances. [1] https:/&#x
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by _msw_ 5y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but they don't pay me to share my personal opinions on FOSS licenses here on HN. I'm speaking for myself. Personally, I am a fan of AGPLv3. But I am uncomfortable with advice to apply APLv3 code in an e
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by _msw_ 5y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS. There were contributions sent upstream for Elasticsearch bugfixes and enhancements. Some of those PRs are still open, for example [1]. A sampling of additional PRs can be found in this blog post [2]. Further cont
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by _msw_ 5y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but I don't work on Redis or managed services based on Redis. Madelyn Olson, at present an AWS employee, is one of the members of the Redis core team [1]. The invitation was extended because she had "be
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by _msw_ 5y ago
Disclosure: I work for AWS, but I don't work directly on AWS Private 5G. I mean, it sounds like they / their investors were shopping and the KDDI offer of what was reported [1] to be $180 million won? Who's to say if AWS part

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