Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Apollon Oikonomopoulos: > What this section says (at least to my eyes), is that the SSPL requires > *all software* interfacing with MongoDB to form a "service" to be > licensed under the SSPL too. This is a much broader restriction than > linking, but still does not seem to violate DFSG #9. I

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-15 Thread Chris Lamb
Adrian Bunk wrote: > Please elaborate what is the relevant difference that makes the AGPL > DFSG-free but SSPL v1 not. I understand the motivation behind this request but as this has been somewhat discussed ad-nauseum elsewhere on the internet and I would not wish to condescend Hideki, Apollon o

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-12 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:42:27 +0100 Chris Lamb wrote: > Before I expound on this topic, are you already acquainted with the > general concerns raised about this license outside of Debian? I would > not with to patronise you by repeating them to you here. Not at all. > (Just another brief cl

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-10 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 09:48:03AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >... > However, the SSPL is clearly not in the sprit of the DFSG, yet alone > complimentary to the Debian's goals of promoting software or user > freedom. >... You are treating "make it easy to build proprietary services o

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-10 Thread Chris Lamb
Hideki, > Could you explain it a bit more, please? Why SSPL doesn't meet our > goal? I don't complain about this judge but more detailed explanation > with some examples is better, IMHO. Before I expound on this topic, are you already acquainted with the general concerns raised about this lice

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-09 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 04:44:39 -0500 "Chris Lamb " wrote: > As you have discovered, it is difficult to point towards a clear-cut > violation of the DFSG that we could all agree on due to both legal and > language fuzziness. However, even if we could, there is always a > slight tendency to treat

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-05 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > In light of this, the Project does not consider that software licensed > under the SSPL to be suitable for inclusion in the Debian archive. For the avoidance of doubt: * This statement accidentally omitted a restriction/reference to the the "main" [0] archive component.

Bug#915537: MongoDB SSPL v1 license and the DFSG

2018-12-04 Thread Apollon Oikonomopoulos
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal [ Continuing the thread in debian-legal[0] and Cc'ing debian-legal as well ] Dear FTP masters, I would like your opinion on whether MongoDB's new SSPL license is suitable for inclusion in the main archive. To give a bit of background, MongoDB was pre