[License-review] Support for SSPL v2

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:41 AM Greg Luck <greg at hazelcast.com> wrote:
> Cloud Providers are different. And new.  They provide the software as a service, not a copy of the software. They provide the exact software, with the same API, and generally without any modifications, as a service. I call it service wrapping. Some examples are Redis, MySQL, Kafka.  They derive all their economic value from running the software for others without giving those others “copies”. So they can do this without passing on any copyleft restrictions. The software is used, not copied and therefore not conveyed as defined.
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> I always through the idea behind copyleft was to prevent that other party from simply selling, or modifying a selling something that was free. So it made those derivative works free too. This is the same idea, but applied to the new world of services.

There is an existing OSI-approved license which addresses this exact
situation: the AGPL. It applies to the covered work, as copyright law
allows it to. It does not apply to any other works which are used in
combination (unless the 'derivative work' aspects are triggered) with
the covered work in order to provide access to the covered work, and
as has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, if RMS and Eben had
been able to find a way to make it do that, they almost certainly
would have done so.