On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 10:28:46 PM EST Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 5:33 PM John Harris
<johnmh(a)splentity.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:29:58 AM EST Ben Cotton wrote:
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> > Fedora has determined that the Server Side Public Licensev1 (SSPL) is
> > not a Free Software License.
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> For what reason is SSPL considered non-free? As I see, it's essentially a
> GPL incompatible AGPL license.
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It restricts fields of endeavor and how you can use it. That conflicts
with freedom 0 of the Free Software Definition. In addition, no one is
sure it's actually possible to comply with the SSPL as worded, since
it attempts to convert the licensing of everything that's part of the
running system, including things not directly linked to it.
The ability to use proprietary software in combination with free software is
not part of Freedom 0.
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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com>
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