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

[Simon Phipps]

Like McCoy I would say this *is* the public process. Anyone posting a
license here for review should expect feedback and should be prepared to
take on board whatever is constructive and iterate their license until
consensus is reached on license-review..

MongoDB are well aware that they will need to iterate SSPL incorporating
improvements as best they can. I thus encourage everyone to focus on that
rather than meta-issues.  By the way, they are a client and I am thus
recusing myself from OSI's approval decision - note that I saw the full
license text and FAQ/blog for the first time yesterday like everyone else
and didn't write any of it.

Simon
(personal capacity)

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 4:39 PM Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:

> 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> 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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