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

[Kyle Mitchell]

On 2018-11-05 22:11, Eric Schultz wrote:
> All a person has to do is say your copyleft applies to
> networks and then you can say something like "if you use
> this and your company provides abortion coverage to
> employees, you must provide the entire source code to all
> the software you use to everyone in the world."

I think you misread me.  That term would violate OSD 6.

As for distinguishing network software development from
other kinds of software, plenty of approved copyleft
licenses discriminate among ways of creating new software
with old.  For example, the weak copyleft licenses, LGPL,
MPL, EPL.  Arguably, so do the original, strong, GPL-style
licenses, now that we have network copyleft.  GPLv3
"discriminates" against proprietary development generally,
and among those, privileges developers who distribute
software over those who provide it as services.

Copyleft is inherently discriminatory.  For reasons I set
out in my post at the section linked below, that kind of
discrimination evidently isn't the kind 5 and 6 prohibit.
Where developers have a choice to make their code free or
nonfree, copyleft exists precisely to encourage and require
the free choice.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/05/OSD-Copyleft-Regulation.html#discrimination

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