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> OSI needs to get off their asses and acknowledge the problem and work with the community to develop licenses that limit SaaSification and other forms of appro
by jefftk 5y ago
> OSI needs to get off their asses and acknowledge the problem and work with the community to develop licenses that limit SaaSification and other forms of appropriation in a way that is compatible with the principles of open source and lacks the optics (FUD) problems of the GPL approach.
I'm confused about what you want here. The GPL does not deal with SaaSification; for that you need the AGPL. But what problem do you have with the AGPL?
- lomereiter 5y agoAGPL doesn't prevent running unmodified software and offering it as a service by large vendors. See the controversy around SSPL and the recent ElasticSearch fork by AWS - I suggest reading Kyle Mitchell's take on this: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/20/Righteous-Expedient-Wrong.html https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/20/Righteous-Expedien... That said, I believe SSPL is an overkill, and what's needed for a less known SaaS product is a legally enforceable revenue-sharing mechanism - so it can benefit from being listed on popular platforms.