* John Harris: > On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:29:58 AM EST Ben Cotton wrote: >> Fedora has determined that the Server Side Public Licensev1 (SSPL) is >> not a Free Software License. > > For what reason is SSPL considered non-free? As I see, it's > essentially a GPL incompatible AGPL license. For a start, it's unclear what “service” means. Fedora provides precompiled binaries and community support. Does this “make the functionality of the Program […] available to third parties as a service”? Who knows. The FAQ only says that “users” (and not distributions) are allowed to redistribute the software, and it does not really talk about pre-built binaries. (Fedora relies on a volunteer mirror network, so we can't publish all the source code for the package download service even if we wanted to.) It's true that one person employed by the company said that they do not mean “service” as in “goods in services” in section 13, but we don't know if that reflects a company position, and what the exact distinction between pre-built software and software-as-a-service is. Things like OpenShift Operators blurry the line considerably. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
