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

[Smith, McCoy]

Isn’t the license review process on this mailing list public, though?
Seems as though there is a reasonable amount of criticism of drafting (or more broadly, raising of substantive legal issues or substantive OSD compliance issues) via the mailing list, and submitters who take that criticism to heart and respond, or alter their license in response have a higher success rate.


From: License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces at lists.opensource.org] On Behalf Of Luis Villa
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 7:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [License-review] Approval: Server Side Public License, Version 1 (SSPL v1)

I've long argued that OSI should formally require a public process, as a more objective replacement for the subjective "good drafting" requirement. But I'm pretty loath to tack it on as a requirement after the fact. (Consider this a particular example of my general distaste for "unwritten rules".)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 9:58 AM Richard Fontana <richard.fontana at opensource.org<mailto:richard.fontana at opensource.org>> wrote:
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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