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

Nigel T nigel.2048 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 23:39:24 UTC 2018


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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