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When you are offering MongoDB as a service, article 13 requires you to release the source code of everything you're using to host your MongoDB instance under th
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 7y ago
When you are offering MongoDB as a service, article 13 requires you to release the source code of everything you're using to host your MongoDB instance under the terms of SSPL.
In practice, it's impossible because you aren't the copyright holder of your kernel, firmware, webserver etc. so you can't change their license to SSPL.
- zucker42 7y agoThat's not impossible. You can use solely SSPL software, or software with licenses compatible with SSPL.
- brown9-2 7y agoIs there a kernel or OS under the SSPL?
- zucker42 7y agoAs far as I understand, you could redistribute BSD under the SSPL, since the BSD license doesn't prevent relicensing as long as you keep the BSD license as well. And besides, there's a difference between the practical impossibility of building a kernel and the idea of the actual impossibility of complying with the license terms. That said, I think the argument that the SSPL makes it difficult enough to use the software (due to the bookkeeping requirements of tracking every piece of software that interacts with the SSPL software) has some merit.