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by GenghisSean
2713 days ago
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I am happy to see someone mention freedom in this thread. I believe the term "open source" distracts from the more prescient issue of user freedom. One of the issues with SSPL is that it intertwines the ideas of an AGPL style copyleft with an allowance for SaaS use cases, specifically in section 13 of SSPL. I would argue this is more pernicious than an openly proprietary license for precisely the wolf in sheep's clothing reasoning you mentioned. People adopting MongoDB and its endorsement of SaaS may believe they're supporting the values of "open source", but they're sacrificing user freedom as Stallman points out in this blog post. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... |
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