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  • stunertoSelfhostedMattermost is no longer Open-Source
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    14 days ago

    I think the problem is that the license grant (that has been in place for a decade) is not that clear.

    You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform produced by Mattermost, Inc. under an MIT LICENSE

    You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. in one of two ways:

    1. Under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU AGPL v3.0, subject to the exceptions outlined in this policy; or […]

    I read it as releasing the binaries under MIT and granting people an AGPL license for the (non-enterprise) code. Some read it as not granting you the full AGPL rights.

    To me, the fact that they advertise Mattermost as “open-source” and the statement on the “reciprocal license” above indicates that Mattermost also reads this as an AGPL license grant. However, they don’t seem to be interested in fully clarifying the license situation. But, I think they would have a very hard time to argue in court that this license doesn’t allow AGPL forks. And I haven’t seen any evidence of them acting against any of the existing forks.


  • stunertoSelfhostedMattermost is no longer Open-Source
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    14 days ago

    Eh, that post title is quite sensationalistic.

    1. Nothing regarding the license has changed in the last 2 years.
    2. It seems like they consider the non-enterprise code to be licensed under the AGPL:

    Thank you for the community discussion around this topic. I do recognize that our licensing strategy doesn’t offer the clarity the community would like to see, but at this time we are not entertaining any changes as such.

    UPDATE Feb 2, 2026: To be specific, our license is using standard open source licenses, a reciprocal AGPL license and a permissive Apache v2 license for other areas. Both are widely used open source licenses and have multiple interpretations of how they apply, as showcased in this thread.

    When we say we don’t “offer the clarity the community would like to see”, that refers specifically to the many statements in this thread where different contributors are confused by other people’s comments and statements.

    For LICENCE.txt itself, anyone can read the history file and see we haven’t materially changed it since the start of the project.

    If you’re modifying the core source code under the reciprocal license you share those changes back to the open source community. If you’d like to modify the open source code base without sharing back to the community, you can request a commercial license for the code under commercial terms.

    Maybe we can hold the pitchforks a while longer, unless they actually make a negative change.


  • Yes… and it also seems to me like (6) (d) would prevent Motorola’s policy of only providing security updates:

    (d) functionality updates mentioned under point (a) need to be available to the user at the latest 6 months after the public release of the source code of an update of the underlying operating system or, if the source code is not publicly released, after an update of the same operating system is released by the operating system provider or on any other product of the same brand;

    But the language here is quite tricky… I’m not 100% sure that points © and (d) force a manufacturer to provide updates under point (a) if Google updates AOSP.



  • He certainly claims to have used the correct Bazzite images:

    A few folks have asked but yes every machine got it’s own specific install, each machine has it’s own Bazzite ISO download for their specific hardware. No cloning, no short cuts, each was treated like a brand new machine with a fresh install 🕊️. After updates installed I rebooted and checked updates again, I’ll never take PC benchmarks for granted again 😅

    He also mentions that he used the “Nvidia (GTX 9xx-10xx Series)” image for the 1080 Ti system.

    Of course, it could be that he messed up, but it could also be that Bazzite didn’t work as intended. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time that Nvidia drivers broke on a Linux distro.

    And in case this was indeed user error, perhaps it would be a good idea to have a mechanism to let users know that they chose the “wrong” image.


  • If that was the intent, then I think this was a very bad way to show that. A much better way would’ve been showing that it didn’t work on system X and resolving it (e.g. with some external help). Instead he just showed a large number of invalid/irrelevant benchmarks. This now leaves people thinking that Linux has a massive performance deficit instead of an issue with the driver installation. I would like to see a follow-up to address the driver issues and explain what went wrong, s.t. we can actually learn something from this.

    I would also hope that the typical experience is that it works out of the box, especially on a distro like Bazzite, but that’s besides the point.









  • stunertoLinux@lemmy.mlReminder: System76 is not to be trusted
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    2 months ago

    Spreading false information about Gnome claiming it is insecure sounds like a valid concern for the Gnome team.

    Could you point me to that, I couldn’t find anything related to Gnome security in the linked article.

    A bit unfair IMO by the downvoters to not explain their downvotes?

    There were disagreements between Gnome and System76 and they decided to go separate ways. The whole “contributing to upstream” situation is also kind-of muddy at best. Maybe that’s grounds to write a disappointed blog post 4 years ago, but saying that they are “not to be trusted” today goes too far IMHO.

    Also, looking at how Gnome and System76 behave upstream (e.g. in Wayland) today, it seems to me that Gnome is the bigger problem…



  • Sure, I’d consider that the main option (and it had already been proposed by multiple people here). But, it also seems like that would come with quite a bit of additional hassle, as discussed below. I’ve personally had some quite annoying issues with incompatible DKMS modules… So, instead of using the unsupported AUR option, it might also be worth considering switching to a very similar distro that actually still supports this hardware configuration.