Someone sent me an off-list reply. I have forwarded it as it provides some
additional information.
----- Forwarded message from Alexander Shpilkin
As probably some of you have realized, there is a discussion regarding mongodb and the relicense from AGPLv3 to SSPLv1. [...]
Obviously, we don't care about the license being free nor OSI compliant. We only care if we are allowed to redistribute or not.
[...]
There is nothing in the SSPLv1 license text that prohibits us from distributing mongodb.
I feel I should point out here that there’s uncertainty on part of both [debian-legal participants][1] and [Debian FTP masters][2] as to whether the distribution of binaries falls under the service restrictions. If it does, this would mean all software on the mirrors would need to be SSPL-compatible (in particular, non-GPL), which _would_ prohibit us. The SSPL authors [were asked][3] for their stance on this question, but do not appear to have answered. I think this is troubling in itself.
There are however special requirements in the license we have to abide if we want to distribute modified source code.
Currently the PKGBUILD does a few sed's in the source to build it. [...]
Note that the service restrictions (which are different from distribution restrictions) are applicable to both modified and unmodified versions; in fact, the original authors [declare][4] this to be among the design goals of the SSPL. [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/10/msg00008.html [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915537#50 [3]: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/20... [4]: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/20... -- Alex Shpilkin ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16