Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 21, 2021 4:58 UTC (Thu) by jra (subscriber, #55261)
In reply to: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by flussence
Parent article: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

No, that's sadly consistent with his focus on popularity instead of freedom. *His* projects, *his* code must be the most used. Clang being more popular than gcc is unbearable for him. I think he's terrified of his legacy being replaced. I can sympathise with that somewhat (I bristle a little when people replace Samba with other SMB servers :-), but you can't *make* people want to use your code. If there's something better for their purpose, then they're going to use that. The only thing you can do is try and be flexible and improve your own code. Rms and the FSF are long past being able to do that anymore. All IMHO of course.

It's a tragedy in progress. In desperately trying to preserve his legacy, he's destroying it.

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 26, 2021 5:51 UTC (Tue) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link] (2 responses)

Maybe a bit off-topic, but there are other SMB / CIFS servers that are free software? Asking for a friend ;)

Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 26, 2021 6:25 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

https://www.jcifs.org/ is the major one. There's a bunch of commercial ones, here's a good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_that_suppo...

Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 26, 2021 23:24 UTC (Tue) by jra (subscriber, #55261) [Link]

jcifs is a client not a server, plus it's SMB1 only and essentially unmaintained I think. There are several SMB1/2/3 client libraries, but I think Samba is the only Free Software SMB server. There is a project implementing an SMB2-only (thank goodness they took the advice from us not to implement SMB1 :-) Linux kernel server, but time will tell if it's a great idea to add an SMB2 server into the Linux kernel :-).