Re: MongoDB Server Side Public License, Version 1 (SSPL v1)

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Xavier:

>> 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.

I think you are right, but the test <https://wiki.debian.org/DissidentTest>
is not formally part of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.