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I had to look up SSPL. I still think of MongoDB as the meme buzzword database, but it sounds like an unambiguously good idea. I get the sense that GPL was written when most software was client-side, and hasn't kept up with the times.
Practically though, having worked at smaller software companies, I am confident that most places don't give a rat's ass about this kind of thing and will just do whatever is convenient; and the Amazon and Microsoft-tier corporations already want to write their own version of everything anyway.
Call me cynical, but people who care about software licensing are a minority of a minority, and I don't think this stuff will have much meaningful impact.
Mar 30 · 2 months ago
> 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.
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> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.
This is basically impossible to comply with this license because I’m running Linux and don’t have right to re-license Linux code under SSPL as it is required.
So this license just disallow everybody to use this code…
Situation with Redis etc — Hi, what is your opinion about recent change of Redis licensing? This looks like some streak: Qt limited availability of LTS releases Red Hat is testing how much it can circumvent GPL without breaking it literally MongoDB went SSPL Elasticsearch went SSPL And so on… At this point I’m starting to think that if there is some CLA to sign or the project is not under LGPL/GPL/AGPL license, the project is just meant to fund more yachts for some venture capitalists by...
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