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

[Bruce Perens]

I am waiting for the license drafter to respond constructively regarding
fixing the obvious problems. I spoke with Mongo's lawyer, but that doesn't
mean the lawyer will be directed to engage. Without that sort of engagement
IMO rejection is inevitable.

Thanks

Bruce

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 16:40 Nigel T <nigel.2048 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's been recommended/suggested that we defer discussion of this
> particular license as it should be part of a larger discussion regarding
> the expansion of copyleft.  Hopefully I characterized that correctly.
>
> Are we tabling discussing this license and moving to license-discuss or
> just proceeding?  It seems like someone should clarify what the OSI board
> would prefer to do in these kinds of circumstances (also rather rare).
>
> It would, however, be moderately unfair to the submitter to shift this to
> license-discuss with no real guidance on when or if any decision should
> emerge.  Presumably we shouldn't spend years on it but may want far more
> than the recommended 60 days.  I also don't see how to evaluate SSPL
> without discussions that are likely to end up far afield of the specifics
> of the license itself.
>
> For me it's a bridge too far but there are potentially many licenses that
> meet the OSD and would be valuable to a part of the Open Source community
> that I would never likely want to use or advocate for.  Also, if the
> assertion is that we should be evaluating SSPL adherence to the OSD based
> on a free software perspective vs an open source perspective then reviewers
> on this list should be made aware of that.  Until then I will view
> submissions from an open source perspective.
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:41 PM Simon Phipps <webmink at opensource.org>
> wrote:
>
>> This list is called license-review. It is for reviewing licenses. We are
>> going to do that here. Please move all other discussions related to
>> licensing to license-discuss.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Simon
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