retitle 1107082 RM: netdata -- turned proprietary [RoM;RoQA]
reassign 1107082 ftp.debian.org
thanks
Hi Chris,
On 6/1/25 13:24, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
I'm proposing to remove netdata from Debian (unstable), due to the
licensing concerns mentioned in #1106233 (Orphan bug). I understand
these to mean that src:netdata is mostly useless in Debian.
I forgot to write #1106233 two things that make it even worse:
* the non-free netdata-ui requires a netdata.cloud login, without it
is not usable at all (eventhough the binary is running on the local
system).
* over the course of the last two years, upstream has moved a lot of
functionality out of the locally running non-free netdata-ui into
the netdata.cloud service.
I expect that with upcoming versions, netdata-ui will more and more
transform into being solely a "local renderer" to display the
netdata.cloud website by moving total control (licensing,
metadata and telemetry) to upstreams own managed proprietary service
in order to maximize commercial profit.
I therefore support the immediate removal of netdata, I don't see the
need for prolonging it further.
Should things change fundamentally how Netdata Inc. runs things, or
someone wanting to re-introduce it in contrib, they can always do it via
going through NEW (they would need to repackage the whole thing from
scratch anyway).
Regards,
Daniel
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