Discourse uses Docker Engine in production, which is not affected by the aforementioned licensing update. The only applicable scenario I can see would be if one were to run Discourse in development mode using the Docker guide (and only if they were using Docker Desktop, e.g MacOS or Windows with the Docker Desktop WSL integration enabled).
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