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I know this isn't the focus of the article, but this license provision in a linked project is outright strange.

>By using this software you agree that the following non-PII (non personally identifiable information) data will be collected, processed and used by the maintainers for the purpose of improving the docker-android project. Anonymisation with respect of the IP address means that only the first two octets of the IP address are collected.

https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android/blob/master/LICENSE...

How can you call a project Apache when you're forcing people to pay via their data ? Why is their no opt out option?

Absent that this seems like a great QA automation tool. Or a Tinder bot farm...



While nasty, the Apache license does not concern itself with what an application does, only how it is distributed.


The especially weird thing is putting something like that in the license.


According to the documentation about analytics, there is an opt-out.


Where exactly, I'd expect them to both mention the analytics and the opt out option in the readme.

Just rubs me the wrong way, you can easily use this without knowing it phones home


Sadly, today this is more common than not, even with OSS. Even Elasticsearch has been doing collecting and transmitting their telemetry shit for many years now (since well before Kimchi decided to change the license from OSS-friendly to a hostile one).




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