But the people pushing the SSPL were not idiots. They never seriously expected that to happen, and they were right. Which means the goal of the SSPL was actually something else. As Steven Vaughan-Nichols wrote back in 2019;
"The business point behind MongoDB's license change is to force cloud companies to use one of MongoDB's commercial cloud offerings."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-open-source-server-side-public-license-rejected/
The SSPL was not a push to expand software freedom, it was an attempt at legalised extortion.
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