[2Gkashmiri]

Isnt sspl just agpl with "addtional" requirement only if you are a cloud service provider just for the benefit of their users? If am an end user of say Amazon, am I not getting more freedoms with respect to the source code of Amazon stack? Isnt that GPL is supposed to provide ?

[ocdtrekkie]

"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."

Doesn't particularly specify what type of business you have to be running, though it's obviously partially related to whatever type of software you licensed under the SSPL.

The GPL affects projects which embed GPL code into them, and the SSPL effectively does the same, it just draws the borders wider, to anything used to provide it as a service to others. In a copyleft sense, that promotes providers of it to also contribute to the ecosystem of tools around it.

[2Gkashmiri]

I dont think GPL forces anyone to contribute upstream. I am asking about the idea of freedom the end user enjoys with GPL code. Does sspl build on it, give more freedom to end user or restrict that freedom. If it gives more freedom, isnt that a good thing ? Why should people be up with pitchforks ?