I think you are confusing a license to use “enterprise edition” yourself, with a “license to provide the product (as a service) to customers”, as is required under SSPL.
SSPL is not AGPL: you can never be sure you comply with “or make your code available” due to the way this is worded. Please read https://www.ssplisbad.com/ before arguing that it is the same as AGPL.
That website is quite full of FUD based on misunderstanding the license text and zero legal, court tested evidence. Nobody has asked anyone to provide the BIOS for your Dell computer. The FAQ at Elastic license page for instance, clears a lot of the misconceptions (falsehoods). Same with mongodbs. Same with redis.
SSPL is not AGPL and I never claimed it was, I said it’s the next step GPL -> AGPL - > SSPL, with stronger and stonger copyleft protections. From distribution, to modified usage over a network, to unmodified usage, offering “as service”.
If AWS wants to use my code for another yacht for bezos, they can either pay me or open the source for their code, just the same as I did. Contribute, fork the project or gtfo. And there are many forks of every SSPL project, so no problem there.
Every SSPL product I know is dual licensed, you can use either SSPL or some kind of enterprise license that allows you to do whatever you want, as long as you pay the required fees. Once you go enterprise the SSPL does not apply to you. See alibaba for instance, offering both elastic and mongodb as a service with no issue and no code made available.
I think you are confusing a license to use “enterprise edition” yourself, with a “license to provide the product (as a service) to customers”, as is required under SSPL.
SSPL is not AGPL: you can never be sure you comply with “or make your code available” due to the way this is worded. Please read https://www.ssplisbad.com/ before arguing that it is the same as AGPL.
That website is quite full of FUD based on misunderstanding the license text and zero legal, court tested evidence. Nobody has asked anyone to provide the BIOS for your Dell computer. The FAQ at Elastic license page for instance, clears a lot of the misconceptions (falsehoods). Same with mongodbs. Same with redis.
SSPL is not AGPL and I never claimed it was, I said it’s the next step GPL -> AGPL - > SSPL, with stronger and stonger copyleft protections. From distribution, to modified usage over a network, to unmodified usage, offering “as service”.
If AWS wants to use my code for another yacht for bezos, they can either pay me or open the source for their code, just the same as I did. Contribute, fork the project or gtfo. And there are many forks of every SSPL project, so no problem there.
Every SSPL product I know is dual licensed, you can use either SSPL or some kind of enterprise license that allows you to do whatever you want, as long as you pay the required fees. Once you go enterprise the SSPL does not apply to you. See alibaba for instance, offering both elastic and mongodb as a service with no issue and no code made available.