The race to replace Redis

The SSPL also doesn't extend to other software existing on the same medium. I think the best way to view it is that it extends the definition of "linking" for the age of the web app, to close loopholes in the GPL that web apps exploit. It stops allowing you to manipulate "at arm's length" to avoid "linking" two programs that are, in reality, still intimately related.

Is AWS DynamoDB (for example) a work? Common sense says that it's still *a* work, no matter how many executable files it's divided up into. And that work is derived from all of the parts that it's derived from. And if any of those are AGPL, so is the whole thing. Except it's not, because the FSF seems to believe each executable file is a separate work just because the interfaces are documented.

SSPL is supposed to fix that.

It also has some wording problems that may make it unusable, but if that's our only objection then we should make a new license like SSPL but with those problems fixed, instead of rejecting it outright.