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

Richard Fontana richard.fontana at opensource.org
Wed Oct 17 13:57:56 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:52:26PM -0700, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> MongoDB had no public process for this license.  Experts in copyleft
> licensing were not asked for input before the license was officially
> released.  The OSI was (apparently) not included early in the drafting
> process as OSI has been when other copylefts (e.g., GPL, MPL).

That is correct -- OSI was not involved prior to MongoDB, Inc.'s
public submission of the license. 

Richard



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