Re: Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Apollon Oikonomopoulos: > What this section says (at least to my eyes), is that the SSPL requires > *all software* interfacing with MongoDB to form a "service" to be > licensed under the SSPL too. This is a much broader restriction than > linking, but still does not seem to violate DFSG #9. I

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-04 Thread Apollon Oikonomopoulos
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal [ Continuing the thread in debian-legal[0] and Cc'ing debian-legal as well ] Dear FTP masters, I would like your opinion on whether MongoDB's new SSPL license is suitable for inclusion in the main archive. To give a bit of background, MongoDB was pre