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

Eric Schultz eric at wwahammy.com
Thu Oct 18 20:42:13 UTC 2018


> MongoDB should withdraw their request for license-review for now; we should
> move the discussion of copyleft expansion over to OSI's license-discuss and
> copyleft-next mailing lists instead; we should encourage that discussion to
> blossom, expanding out into other areas of the community.  This will allow
> the FOSS process of wide-ranging public discussion to shake out these ideas,
> just as was done with Affero GPL from the 2002-2008 period of its vetting.

+1. This is too complex of a topic to decide on this mailing list in
60 days and debating the limits of copyleft isn't its purpose.

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Eric Schultz, Developer and FLOSS Advocate
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