Debian Free Software Guidelines? [LWN.net]

Debian Free Software Guidelines?

Posted Nov 1, 2018 9:29 UTC (Thu) by davidgerard (guest, #100304)
Parent article: Making the GPL more scary

Is this new license going to pass DFSG? Will the new Mongo make it into Debian, and hence Ubuntu, at all?

Or will we just have the last-DFSG version lingering in the repos indefinitely?

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Debian Free Software Guidelines?

Posted Nov 2, 2018 8:54 UTC (Fri) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]

Debian and Ubuntu could take different interpretations: Ubuntu isn't Debian and Canonical could put mongodb under any licence into their partners repository, for example. Canonical would then have to maintain it.

But if Fedora and Debian both have issues with, say Redis and mongodb - they don't get into either distro. Older versions will eventually have security or other bugs that can't be fixed and they get dropped ...

Debian Free Software Guidelines?

Posted Nov 3, 2018 1:28 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

For some of the Redis modules that changed license, there is a fork by Debian folks of the last version before the license change and that is going into Debian. I expect something similar might happen to MongoDB.

https://goodformcode.com/