MongoDB's SSPL (Server Side Public License) sounds like an extremely strong copyleft form of free software license. It sounds like MongoDB took the AGPL and made it much stronger.
Respected "open source" groups have rejected MongoDB's copyleft open source free software license, such as the OSI, RedHat, and Debian.
The criticism of the SSPL do not seem to recognize that it is a copyleft free software license. Is the OSI really a protector of copyleft free software? The politics of these organizations seem to leaning anarcho-capitalist "libertarian".
I don't believe the SSPL will harm any specific field of endeavor. Databases are used in all fields of endeavor. They are usually one of many provided cloud computing services. Cloud computing services are used in most every field of endeavor these days. Even my toothbrush has a cloud database.
By rejecting the SSPL, the OSI, RedHat, Debian have appeared to have ignored the copyleft freedoms that the SSPL guarantees.
@neptune22222 SSPL is made to be viral to the degree that it in practice prohibits any commercial actor from offering a hosted instance of it.
And it’s always used together with CLA:s that gives the the copyright rights to eg. MongoDB and thus enabling MongoDB to offer a service without having to abide by the SSPL.
The SSPL isn’t made to protect freedoms. It’s made to weaponize CLA:s to ensure that the “owner” gets an advantage over everyone else.
@neptune22222 The only “open source” use case I can see for the SSPL is if used together with the Business Source License as the licensing terms for the initial period before the BSL rolls over into a GPL-compatible license.
That could be an improvement over the BSL with a custom provision.
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