Making the GPL more scary

Making the GPL more scary

If all that stuff connects to a running instance of the program, and the instance doesn't need a connection from outside to work (which it hopefully doesn't; otherwise, there's an external point of failure), then this is a short list ("You need Linux, a kvm image running Debian, and this five-line shell script...have fun with your new service instance.").

The problem is that the new license requires you not just to release all that stuff but to release it under this new license. Since some of that code will almost certainly belong to somebody else and be released under a different license- good luck releasing Linux under SSPL- it's effectively impossible to comply with the terms of the license. It's de facto making MongoDB available only under their proprietary terms.