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.
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