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kemitchelltoday at 7:38 AM2 repliesview on HN

See https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up#b...

MongoDB invested sufficient resources in drafting an update to the AGPL. That license is called the Server Side Public License. Controversy ensued.


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RobotToastertoday at 9:09 AM

Iirc the issue with SSPL was that releasing the entire stack under SSPL would basically be impossible, since you wouldn't have the rights to release, for example, the Linux kernel, under it.

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theanonymousonetoday at 7:58 AM

But SSPL was not approved by OSI. BY "investing" I mean getting it to the same status as AGPL :)

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