This product contains software (https://github.com/creack/pty) developed
by Keith Rarick, licensed under the MIT License.
The following is courtesy of our legal counsel:
Use and transfer of Docker may be subject to certain restrictions by the
United States and other governments.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your use and/or transfer does not
violate applicable laws.
Use and transfer of Docker may be subject to certain restrictions by the United States and other governments. It is your responsibility to ensure that your use and/or transfer does not violate applicable laws.
Docker is open source though. Docker desktop is not.
Which can be a pretty big deal.
This works out to: The product is unencumbered, but the only reliable installer is encumbered as fuck.
That’s a “no thanks”, from me.
I don’t need the sword of “Docker fucking with my colleague’s ability to collaborate” hanging over each of my projects.
I’m not mad at folks using Docker for backwards compatibility. I just don’t need to make the problem worse.
So, the Docker engine is free, just not the software under certain stipulations. See I don’t like that. A weird caveat for using it.
What do you mean? I don’t see any CLAs or anything like that in the source code.
https://github.com/moby/moby
https://github.com/docker/cli
This
NOTICEin both repos is weird asf:Also, they do limit some kind of uses if you don’t pay.
That’s true of all software. It may be subject to restrictions by governments. But in this case, it seems to refer to the fact that the US restricted export of cryptographic software, and seemingly continues to restrict. See also Bernstein v. United States.
You mean Docker Desktop?
Also iirc all software developed in the USA is subject to those restrictions.
Oh, well, I didn’t knew about that, yeah.
And, in part yes, but these restrictions also apply to docker-cli and moby, although to a lesser extent
What restrictions? The ones on all US software or something else?
No, I mean, for anything beyond personal, non-commercial use, they do impose restrictions.
The Apache License 2.0 does allow commercial use, and basically any other use. Can you say specifically where those restrictions are stated?