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

[Smith, McCoy]

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>>A decade ago, the Affero GPL, authored by a small charity, was hotly debated in the community, and there was lobbying to oppose its approval by OSI.
>>OSI took many months to decide about AGPL (November to March), and while I don't think license committee discussion of that era are archived publicly, I assume it was a complex topic for consideration, even though Affero GPL had been promulgated in draft form for comment for years before, and discussed rather extensively as part of FSF's >>public and lengthy GPLv3 process.  In other words, even after many years of public discussion to consider whether the Affero clause fit the OSD, the OSI still needed months to think about it one last time.

FWIW, the archives *do* exist.  From what I can tell, AGPLv3 was submitted in January 2008 and approved in March 2008 (http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2008-January/000058.html  http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2008-January/000058.html   ) -- practically lightning speed!
There are threads that one can review in the Jan-Mar archives on AGPLv3 that show what the discussion was at that time, if one is interested in this sort of history (as I am).