MongoDB's SSPL

 October 18, 2018

A couple of days ago, Eliot Horowitz, CTO & co-founder of MongoDB announced that MongoDB is moving from the AGPL to the SSPL license.

The SSPL is a new license, just created by MongoDB. In the post, Eliot points out that they created the SSPL starting from the AGPL, and he affirms that the new license guarantees all the freedoms the AGPL does. I firmly believe that the SSPL is not a FLOSS license since it limits the possibility of the cloud providers to provide an “as a service” version of it. This case might seem trivial and an edge case, but the complete freedom of usage is one of the FLOSS movement and licenses pillars.

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How and why releasing open source code is an advantage for a company

 October 27, 2016 -  Milano, IT

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FLOSS for companies, the public sector, and schools

 October 24, 2015 -  Vignate, IT

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Elettronica Libera

 March 21, 2015 -  Settala, IT

Today ViGLug organized the “Elettronica Libera” (free, as-speech, electronics) event in Settala.

In the morning, we had many sessions, and the focus was more on the general public and promoting those ideas with non-expert people. In the morning, many topics were covered, such as the various boards available, Linux, and the open-source software around them.

In the afternoon, the focus moved to more advanced topics, such as GPIO, OpenWrt, the networking bits, as well as a hands-on session.

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