[Freeswitch-users] Problem with repository server?

[TTT]

I’m reminded of how several years ago Schmooze/Sangoma turned the open source FreePBX project into a closed source commercial product.  The source code was moved onto their own website, with updated only available on their own hosted source code.  Soon new features were only available in source controlled by Schmooze/Sangoma on their site, and that source soon became closed.  Add-ons were soon switched to only work with the closed source product, and the open source project died/sits idle with declining interest. (The open source remains freely available, but it bears less and less resemblance to the FreePBX distro.)  The end result is a FreePBX commercial, closed source, product.  (And since Sangoma bought digium, some new Asterisk features are only finding their way into the FreePBX closed source branch).

 

I only mention this because quite a few of our customers began to express an interest in FreeSWITCH because of what was happening at Sangoma. 

 

Hopefully this is not a step along the same path.

 

 

From: FreeSWITCH-users [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Brian :
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2022 4:35 PM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Problem with repository server?

 

Freeswitch team sent this info out to mailing list. 


Q: What is prompting this change?
A: We’re making this change for several reasons:
So the team that created and maintains FreeSWITCH can better understand and communicate with our community.
So we can take what we learn and improve both FreeSWITCH and SignalWire.
So we can ensure that FreeSWITCH aligns with new security and regulatory requirements.
So you can be confident that the packages you’re running in your stack come directly from us.
So packages are much less likely to have been secretly modified by a malicious actor.
So we can be sure that we’re not directly facilitating illegal use cases.

Q: What about the source code on GitHub?
A: This change does not affect open source code, which will continue to be freely available on GitHub.

This does not in any way change the license to the software.

It may affect how you obtain FreeSWITCH dependencies or FreeSWITCH packages from our package repositories such as our Debian repository.

Q: What does “packages” refer to? The commercial packages? The packages for Debian etc.? Or the raw code/releases?
A: This refers to binary package repositories such as Debian repo.

If you have any further questions or concerns about this change, please come to our Community Slack channel and let us know.  


On Friday, March 18, 2022, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it <mailto:Antony.Stone at freeswitch.open.source.it> > wrote:
> On Friday 18 March 2022 at 01:32:38, Howard Lin wrote:
>
>> You can put a token in the https url. So you'll have the following in the
>> source.list file:
>> "deb https://<token_name>:<token>@files.freeswitch.org/repo/deb/xxx/xxx <http://files.freeswitch.org/repo/deb/xxx/xxx> "
>> <deb_release> main"
>
> Ah, thank you.
>
> I'm still intrigued as to why this has been implemented.
>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 6:29 PM Antony Stone wrote:
>> > On Thursday 17 March 2022 at 21:15:42, Len Graham wrote:
>> > > The instructions have been updated to reflect the changes needing an
>> > > auth token to access community FreeSWITCH repo
>> > > https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Debian.  This is
>> > > link to the email that went out if you didn't receive the email.
>> > > https://mailchi.mp/freeswitch.com/announcement-566110?e=510c4217e1
>> >
>> > Hm, no, certainly never seen that notice on this list.  What date was it
>> > sent out?
>> >
>> > Also, how does this work with cron-apt?  Can I put the token into
>> > sources.list, or what?
>> >
>> > I've never seen something like this needed for open source software
>> > before - what was the reason for introducing it?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> > Antony.
>
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