Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc...
by rakoo on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:13PM
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> Part of the blame falls on AGPL not being clear enough, which led Mongo to overcorrect when creating SSPL.
No, AGPL (and GPL before it) is working as intended; the issue for Mongo and Elastic is that it never cared about how you're making money, and that's very much by design. I don't see SSPL as improving the freedom of the users of software, so I don't really see a fault in (A)GPL
No, AGPL (and GPL before it) is working as intended; the issue for Mongo and Elastic is that it never cared about how you're making money, and that's very much by design. I don't see SSPL as improving the freedom of the users of software, so I don't really see a fault in (A)GPL