Dear BioC team,

I noticed that all of the BioC docker images are based on the rocker/rstudio image, which contains Rstudio-server. I am a big fan of Rstudio's products myself, but Rstudio-server uses the AGPL licsense, which cannot be used within certain commercial organizations. 

Given that Rstudio-server is not a prerequisite for using Bioconductor packages, would it be possible to provide docker images based on the rocker/r-base, which does not contain the Rstudio-server product, as well (or even instead)?  That way, the docker images would be useful to the largest possible number of users, even within organizations that don't allow the AGPL license.

Many thanks for taking this suggestion under consideration,

Thomas

P.S.: I noticed that the rocker/rstudio Dockerfile also installs some system-wide libraries used by Bioconductor packages, e.g. the libcurl4-openssl-dev libraries are required by RCurl. This instruction would therefore needed to be added to the bioconductor/base Dockerfile(s).

The docker containers could be based on r-base, but then people might complain that they don't have RStudio. 

So I guess it's a question of what is more valuable to more people, being able to use RStudio out of the box with Biooconductor Docker containers, or not having RStudio in order to comply with licensing requirements.

As it is, your options are to simply not use RStudio, or to make your own images based on our images, in which you remove RStudio.

Also, RStudio has this in a FAQ:

"If it turns out you can’t use AGPL software, we provide a commercial desktop license that comes with support and Pro editions of RStudio Server and Shiny Server that offer additional features around scaling, authentication, and monitoring."

 Not sure if that helps you.