The creator certainly has all those rights. On the other hand, it's definitely a goal here to have people use the software - that is, after all, a somewhat nece

The creator certainly has all those rights. On the other hand, it's definitely a goal here to have people use the software - that is, after all, a somewhat necessary precondition to making money off it. Given the difficulties with legally complying here, I'm not sure anyone who comes across this whole thing will want to touch MongoDB with 30ft pole, let alone make it a core component of their project. From a company perspective, the current legal answer to "What happens if I use this under SSPL for <insert side project website here>?" appears to be "the entire site might have to be under SSPL - we don't know". So much for that, I'll use something else. From an OSS perspective - it's generally considered that to maximise OSS, you want to allow supporting software (compilers, DBs, etc) to be used in commercial/proprietary systems. This can't be, not with a license like this.