[Fiware-technical-committee] Fwd: Your eligibility for the Docker Open Source Program

[Federico Michele Facca]

Dear All,
recently terms and conditions of Docker Hub usage changed a lot, and unless
willing to pay, this is going to affect all organisations with free
accounts that
use Docker Hub to distribute docker images of their FIWARE GEs.

Options I see:
- All official GEs are just hosted under FIWARE Docker Hub repo.
  -> Pro: FIWARE Foundation should be able to get the OS status
recognition, and so no limitation will apply.
  -> Cons: maintainers will lose visibility, and users will need to be duly
informed of changing the repo to use docker images.

- Maintainers move to alternative solutions to Docker Hub.
  -> Pro: Maintainers will retain visibility.
  -> Cons: Users will need to be duly informed of changing the repo to use
docker images.

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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Federico Michele Facca <federico.facca at martel-innovate.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 10:14
Subject: Re: Your eligibility for the Docker Open Source Program
To: Aurelien Suarez <aurelien-suarez at docker.com>
Cc: Juanjo Hierro <juanjose.hierro at fiware.org>, Ulrich Ahle <
ulrich.ahle at fiware.org>


Dear Aurelien,
The components we deliver open source are part of the FIWARE Open Source
platform which is backed by a non profit organization: the FIWARE
Foundation.
Simply as a way of working FIWARE does not force to transfer repositories
under the control of the association, they just mirror them.
You can check, for example, that quantumleap is listed here:
https://www.fiware.org/developers/catalogue/

This is the case for the projects part of FIWARE (e.g. Context Broker,
maintained by Telefonica), unless maintained and developed by the FIWARE
Foundation itself.
Clearly, if contributors like us, cannot benefit, that's gonna affect large
part of the project of parf of FIWARE, unless the single organisation
are willing to pay Docker hub subscriptions. I assume, being a lot of them
SMEs, it's easier that they will give up on Docker hub.

@Juanjo Hierro <juanjose.hierro at fiware.org> @Ulrich Ahle
<ulrich.ahle at fiware.org> I guess this is something we can put in the Agenda
of the next Board of Directors of the Foundation, to decide a common
strategy
to tackle the issue.

Best,
Federico

PS: I would also argue that following your approach in a strict sense, you
should not accept even projects from Apache or other OS foundations, if
they are supported
by commercial organizations (which is the case for 100% of them, basically).


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On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 10:00, Aurelien Suarez <aurelien-suarez at docker.com>
wrote:

> Hello Federico,
>
> Thank you once again for submitting your application to the Docker Open
> Source Program.  The Docker Open Source program is designed to help
> non-commercial members of the open-source continue driving the adoption of
> their software.  Among other benefits, for approved Open Source Program
> contributors, we whitelist their organizations’ namespaces so that pulls
> from their users are not subject to the policies for data pull rates.
>
> We have designed this program to help individual contributors, nonprofits
> and educational institutions. Because your project is backed by a
> commercial organization, we regret to inform you that your Docker namespace
> is not eligible. For the ISVs ineligible for our Open Source Program, we
> offer competitively priced services for low-friction distribution of ISVs’
> software.
>
> Please let us know if the Docker new policies for data pull rates are
> impacting your business operations, and we will connect you with the
> appropriate support.
>
> We appreciate all your support for the Docker open-source community.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Aurélien Suarez
>
> Community Marketing Intern
>
> Docker.
>
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