Comments on: Why SSPL is Bad For You, Part 2 https://www.percona.com/blog/why-sspl-is-bad-for-you-part-2/ Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:25:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Vadim Tkachenko https://www.percona.com/blog/why-sspl-is-bad-for-you-part-2/#comment-10973221 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:25:50 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74240#comment-10973221 In reply to Deepankar.

Deepankar,

We at Percona, are not in position to provide a legal advise. I can speak only about myself and only hypothetically. So let’s say hypothetically I were to provide a SaaS service based on MongoDB. The SSPL license is kind of fuzzy about this, and I can make a conclusion either way. For some help there is SSPL FAQ
https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license/faq
which covers this situation, to quote:
“What are the implications of this new license on applications built using MongoDB and made available as a service (SaaS)?
The copyleft condition of Section 13 of the SSPL applies only when you are offering the functionality of MongoDB, or modified versions of MongoDB, to third parties as a service. There is no copyleft condition for other SaaS applications that use MongoDB as a database.”

So it kind of gives assurance that I can provide SaaS application based on MongoDB and I am not required to open source code of my whole stack and my application. So I probably would be less worrying about this part.
However it is worth to remember that SSPL FAQ is NOT a part of license itself, so if it ever goes to a court, the court will consider only SSPL License text, not some outsides FAQs, so I would seek an additional confirmation from my legal team, that they are ready to deal with this case in a court if it is ever comes to it.

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By: Deepankar https://www.percona.com/blog/why-sspl-is-bad-for-you-part-2/#comment-10973218 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:07:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74240#comment-10973218 I am trying to understand one situation here. Would like your inputs.

Lets say I provide a SaaS which uses MongoDB as a backend provider. This mongodb instance is then installed in a cloud instance for example for every customer seperately. And the same endpoint connects the application to Backend for functioning.

Would this fall under SSPL ?

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By: Peter Zaitsev https://www.percona.com/blog/why-sspl-is-bad-for-you-part-2/#comment-10973004 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:55:48 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74240#comment-10973004 In reply to Renato.

Yep. I think if AWS fork is well governed it makes sense for community to cooperate instead of create many competing forks

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By: Renato https://www.percona.com/blog/why-sspl-is-bad-for-you-part-2/#comment-10973002 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:24:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74240#comment-10973002 Apparently AWS’s fork & Logz’s fork are just one:

“Since Elastic’s announcement, we’ve been collaborating with the AWS team to work towards a single distribution both organizations will take part in.”

https://logz.io/blog/truly-doubling-down-on-open-source-2/

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