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Making the GPL more scary

Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 18, 2018 21:23 UTC (Thu) by federico3 (guest, #101963)
In reply to: Making the GPL more scary by ballombe
Parent article: Making the GPL more scary

That's not a loophole - it's perfectly OK to run an copy not modified by yourself and that's by design.

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Making the GPL more scary

Posted Oct 19, 2018 2:41 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

It is definitely a loophole from MongoDB's perspective, since it basically nullifies the whole reason the SSPL exists; to prevent the cloud vendors from running an unmodified version of the program on their own hardware and selling access to that.


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