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Everyone that proposes MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Graylog products directly to its customers is not allowed to do it. You have an API that exposes a route to a
by petercooper 3y ago
Everyone that proposes MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or Graylog products directly to its customers is not allowed to do it. You have an API that exposes a route to a MongoDB change stream? BEEP! You are not allowed!
Is this right? I may have an overly good faith interpretation of the SSPL, but the word 'directly' implies to me that a Redis or MongoDB host/platform would be affected but not, say, a regular webapp that merely uses Redis as a background component.
Is a route in a webapp that uses a MongoDB change stream (to use the site's example) behind the scenes 'directly' providing MongoDB? I'd generously say no, but it feels like the sort of thing that lawyers would love to scrap over and I guess is part of why people are worried.
- zb3 3y agoOf course it's not the case, the autor wanted to sound as alarmist as possible while obfuscating the actual point of SSPL
- cmeacham98 3y agoThe SSPL doesn't use the word "directly". What it actually says is > If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service ... This is sufficiently vague that proxying a verbatim response from SSPL software is in a grey area.