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

[Eric Schultz]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:24 PM Eliot Horowitz <eliot at mongodb.com> wrote:
>
> Can you please explain why you think there is a distinction between
> paying and non-paying users?

Read the following  sentence:

> Making the functionality of the
> Program or modified version available to third parties as a service
> includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with
> the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through
> a computer network, *offering a service the value of which entirely or
> primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version,*
> or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose
> of the Software or modified version.

Notably, after reading this license for like the 20th time, I realized
this uses the same "includes, without limitation" language as the next
paragraph so the sentence is possibly entirely redundant and the
examples simply confuse instead of inform. It's possible this license
doesn't discriminate unless the "includes, without limitation"
language is meaningfully restricting the sentence before.

Could your explain what made you use the "includes,without limitation"
language in both paragraphs? Is there some sense that the prior
sentence didn't include that phrasing? It does seem to make the
license more confusing than nececessary.

Eric

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