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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by djsumdog on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:49PM (#18302868)
Hmm ... Would this technically be the ultimate Stallman dream?
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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by SEJeff on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:11PM (#18303112)
No. RMS has stated more than once that he is entirely ok with the "service provider loophole" in the GPL. They made the AGPL for those not ok with the loophole, but he never had any issue with it in the original GPL at all.
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Re:MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable by mritun on Thursday October 25, 2018 @02:16PM (#18303153)
No, technically, Stallman is firmly rooted in copyright law. GPL says you take this software and make derived works, as copyright law says what they are, as long as you make derivative works available under the same terms as you received the original software.

GPL steers clear of non-derived work. If you use VMWare on Linux, VMWare is not a derived work as far as copyright law is concerned and there is no relation between them as far as GPL is concerned.

This SSPL, is another story.

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