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



On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:43:09 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Paul Wise:
> 
> > For your convenience, I have included a full copy of the mail below,
> > which includes a justification section as well as full license terms.
> 
> The license appears to be an unlicensed derivative work of the GPLv3,
> which is not itself licensed under a permissive license.  I'm not sure
> if we can distribute the license text.  If not, we can't distribute
> the software itself, either.

I think that this derivative work is permitted, since the [conditions]
established by the FSF seem to be satisfied.

[conditions]: <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL>

> 
> There is no definition what the triggering “services” actually are.
> If it is sufficient to offer precompiled binaries for download, then
> this license could contaminate the mirror network.

This is possibly true and could by itself ban any SSPL-licensed work
from the Debian archive...



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