Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
by nebulous1 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:03PM
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> The owner of the code is entitled to license the software as they want it [1]
> ...
> [1]Whether it is enforceable is another issue.
As per the article, apparently not. Copyright Misuse [1] will stop them setting terms beyond a certain scope. You could argue that that merely makes the licence unenforceable but by that definition the only thing worth talking about is enforceability, so that doesn't seem like a good definition as there are practical enforceability issues to separately consider
> ...
> [1]Whether it is enforceable is another issue.
As per the article, apparently not. Copyright Misuse [1] will stop them setting terms beyond a certain scope. You could argue that that merely makes the licence unenforceable but by that definition the only thing worth talking about is enforceability, so that doesn't seem like a good definition as there are practical enforceability issues to separately consider
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_misuse