Re: MongoDB Server Side Public License, Version 1 (SSPL v1)
Le 16/10/2018 à 16:03, Paul Wise a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed MongoDB are pushing a new license that tries to be like the
> AGPL but more expansive in what software it covers and more expansive
> in what activities trigger the clauses within it.
>
> They have posted to the OSI license review mailing list:
>
> http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2018-October/003603.html
>
> For your convenience, I have included a full copy of the mail below,
> which includes a justification section as well as full license terms.
>
> From: Eliot Horowitz <eliot@mongodb.com>
> Date: Tue Oct 16 13:03:02 UTC 2018
> Subject: [License-review] Approval: Server Side Public License, Version 1 (SSPL v1)
> ...
> “If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version
> available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service
> Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge,
> under the terms of this License. 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.
I feel this part fails against the dissident test but I could be wrong.
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