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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Mar-2020 00:29:14 EDT LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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   About a year ago, #MongoDB ( $_NASDAQ['MDB'] ) withdrew its #SSPL license from the OSI process to have it recognized & approved as "Open Source". http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20390 [opensourceforu com] I tried to read the SSPL text ( http://status.hackerposse.com/url/20391 ) myself. I was looking for the #Four_Freedoms ( which are fundamental to all #FOSS licenses ). I th…
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     @Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] As Bradley Kuhn has pointed out many times, community license enforcement is aiming for compliance, and getting those who are violating the license into compliance.
     
     License enforcement backed by investors is hoping for non-compliance, and converting license violations into sales.
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     @Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] > Or would they perhaps fork the last truly free version, and together with others in similar straits, take over maintenance and development, cutting off the MongoDB corporate entity? Or visit #Apache's various #NoSQL projects and try out potential replacements?The answer came less than 3 months after the license change[…
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