[xorcist]

> like the GPL, discourages commercial use

Comments of this sort was comme il faut in the 90s. But now, more than two decades later, GPL has proven its commercial value so many times over it's hard to take such arguments seriously.

Tit-for-tat business models grow faster than those staking out islands. Linux won. We need to move on from this.

[ocdtrekkie]

By "discourages commercial use", I refer to the very-real-today fact that plenty of organizations won't touch GPL or especially AGPL code because of the copyleft restrictions. This is largely the same for SSPL.

Amazon could use SSPL-licensed Elasticsearch on AWS, if they wanted to open source AWS, and they'd probably still make bank on it. But they don't want to, so hence going to SSPL, like GPL, discourages their use.