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

[Brendan Hickey]

The most significant change as I see it is changing the license steward
from the FSF to MongoDB. Apart from the GPLs, is there precedent for a
non-non-reusable license to include language like this?

Given the similarities with the AGPL, might Mongo consider offering the
license to the FSF, less the stewardship change, as the AGPLv3.1?

Incorporating monitoring code and the such into "server source code" seems
like it could raise practical issues. For example, could you run SSPL code
on AWS?

Brendan

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 11:31 Richard Fontana <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 09:03:02AM -0400, Eliot Horowitz wrote:
> > This license is being submitted for approval by its steward, MongoDB,
> Inc.
>
> Apologies if this was already noted in your submission: MongoDB,
> Inc. has made a redline from AGPLv3 available here:
> https://webassets.mongodb.com/_com_assets/legal/SSPL-compared-to-AGPL.pdf
>
> Eliot, have you also contacted the Free Software Foundation about this
> license (to see whether they would consider it, or rather software
> licensed under it, to meet the Free Software Definition)?
>
> Richard
>
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