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

[Matija Šuklje]

On sreda, 07. november 2018 21:52:46 CET Smith, McCoy wrote:
> I continue to believe LZPL & SSPL *do* violate OSD 9, because
> they impose restrictions on other software – i.e., they dictate
> the license and rights to that software, requiring LZPL or SSPL
> – *even when* that software in no way exercises the rights
> granted by those licenses

I see OSD 9 as the big issue here as well.

It is true that (A)GPL – which are listed by OSI as an Open Source 
license – already demands for build scripts etc. needed to build 
and run the program to be released as well as part of its 
“Corresponding Source”, but the scale of SSPL’s “Service Source 
Code” is much much broader. The big difference is that (A)GPL 
requires these build scripts (etc.) only to be supplied with the 
main Program and their source code to be made available (or 
offered) – regardless under which license.

The SSPL, on the other hand, demands that all “Service Source 
Code” is made available via the internet under SSPL-1.0 as well.

The “System Libraries” and “general-purpose tools or generally 
available free programs which are used unmodified in performing 
those activities but which are not part of the work” carve out 
from the “Corresponding Source” (§ 1 in both SSPL-1.0 and 
AGPL-3.0) may help here to some extent in practical compliance, 
but I doubt it will (or IMHO should) be enough for OSI.


cheers,
Matija Šuklje
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