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ssddanbrown / Open-Source-Confusion-Cases

A list of cases where open source licenses are misrepresented or where "Open Source" is used in a non-open-source-definition adhering manner.
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Sentry - Now resolved? #59

Open Dieterbe opened 2 months ago

Dieterbe commented 2 months ago

FYI, sentry adopted a new term "fair source" and "rebranded" as such: https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-is-now-fair-source/

does this mean they should be removed from the list? i think what might be more useful to track the time windows in the readme, so we keep the historical perspective?

ssddanbrown commented 2 months ago

Thanks @Dieterbe,

Yeah, having been providing input to Sentry along their FSL and fair journey I've been watching their change to this, but their active qualification here has mainly been due to retaining references that could mislead, the main one being this page but it looks like that's now been updated.

That said, I'm not sure if users could still be mislead. The "Open Source" link in their footer leads to that page, with no actual reference to "Fair Source" so the "We're Fairly Open" may only make sense (as referring to not being open) for people already familiar with fair source.

If a user reads this page would they come away with the impression Sentry is open source or not?

Overall, Still at least sits in a grey area for me.