[License-review] Approval: Server Side Public License, Version 1 (SSPL v1)

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Thu Dec 27 12:27:33 UTC 2018


* Bradley M. Kuhn:

> One of the fundamental problems with all the definitions (OSD, etc.) we've
> created up until now is that they seek to evaluate a license on its textual
> face, and not consider how it might be used.

The advantage of that approach is that it does not require to form
consensus whether “open core” business models are something to
encourage, discourage, or explicitly be neutral towards.

I found this old blog post on this matter:

| A simple declaration about "Open Core"
| […]
| "Open Core" has NOTHING to do with "Open Source".

<https://opensource.org/blog/OpenCore>

It was posted to the “Board” blog.  Is this an official position?  Why
are there contradictory comments by “administrator” below it?



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