[License-discuss] Fwd: Intimacy in open source (SSPL and AGPL)

2019-01-18 Thread Bruce Perens
-- Forwarded message - From: Bruce Perens Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:41 PM Subject: Re: Intimacy in open source (SSPL and AGPL) To: Lawrence Rosen Cc: Legal Network , John Cowan , Lawrence Rosen As far as I can tell, CCS (Complete and Corresponding Source code, the nomenclatu

[License-discuss] Intimacy in open source (SSPL and AGPL)

2019-01-18 Thread Lawrence Rosen
There is a lot of recent news about the SSPL license reactions by Red Hat and OSI and others. FWIW (despite the fact that I don't use MongoDB), I agree with their decisions to forego MongoDB software because of its overbroad "copyleft" and "corresponding source" SSPL license requirements. Requiring