On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:19:13 PM EST Simon Farnsworth wrote: > But the SSPL also prevents you from using Free Software with it, unless you > have sufficient rights to offer said Free Software under the SSPL, as per > section 13 of the SSPL. You don't have to relicense software in order to be able to use it. > I do not have sufficient rights to relicence the Linux kernel under the SSPL > - it's not GPLv2 compatible - and the Linux kernel is one part of a service > I might choose to offer using only Free Software from Fedora's repos, plus > an SSPL licensed component. Yeah, none of that matters. See section 1. > Thus, I'm stuck - I can't use non-SSPL software from Fedora (or, indeed, > from the FSF) in combination with SSPL licensed software to provide a > service, even if I *also* make the full source of the entire service > available, since I'm not making the source available under the SSPL. Unless you're providing MongoDB as a service, it doesn't matter, even according to their own FAQ. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/
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