If you want a drop in replacement, you can use conda-forge which pulls from un-encumbered, non-Anaconda repositories.
https://conda-forge.org/ (and once you've switched, you can also get the benefit of mamba, which is conda with passively improved performance). https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba Thanks, Guy On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 at 17:11, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf < beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote: > Recently, one of my users go this e-mail from a commercial account rep at > anaconda.com: > > Hi [User] > > I'm reaching out because I've noticed we are one of [Employer's Name]'s > preferred tools and also to offer guidance in navigating our new Anaconda > Terms of Service, as there are changes for the commercial use of Anaconda. > Based > off my research, [Employer's Name] is mirroring quite a few packages in > the past few months. > > We remain deeply dedicated to OSS, and that cost is funded by the long > tail of our enterprise products and users. In short, we changed our Terms > of Service to prohibit commercial use of our Public Facing Repo ( > repo.anaconda.com) channel without a paid license. > > We'd like to discuss how your organization can remain compliant and > discuss some options moving forward. > > Are you or someone in your IT department available to chat? Book time > with me [link to online scheduling service removed] > <https://anaconda.getoutreach.com/c/Cody_Foxwell> > > Cheers, > [salesperson's name] > > Have any of you received an e-mail like this? > > Since I work at an academic, government research site, I don't think we > fall into the commercial category, so I'm pretty sure we're safe, but I > still don't like this attempt to monetize open-source software like this. > I'm not an open-source zealot like RMS, but I don't like when people take > open-source software, try to monetize it it like this. > > What's interesting is their approach here - they are not trying to keep > open-source software from your directly - they're saying you can't use > their *repo* to get that software. So you can have your open-source > software, but to get it from the dealer to your house, you need to pay a > toll to use the roads. > > I don't like this because many people now rely on conda, and conda only > has value because of the repo. If people using conda knew that this might > be a problem, perhaps they would have stuck with the python.org > distribution of Python and pip. > > The other think I don't like, is that you can't find any of this > information on the anaconda.com website. Even after knowing these terms > and conditions applied, I couldn't find any warnings about this on the > product pages for the Anaconda Distribution. It's as if they're > deliberately hiding this information from potential downloaders of > Anaconda. I only found it by going directly to https://repo.anaconda.com, > where they do have links prominently displayed. > > This seems like a trap to me. You download anaconda, completely unaware of > these terms and conditions, and then use conda to install the packages you > need, unknowingly violating their license.. > > Your thoughts? > > Prentice > > > -- > Prentice > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Dr. Guy Coates +44(0)7801 710224
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