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SSPL

  1. Copyleft Intolerance and the Defining-Open Mind Trap

    forgetting licensing history past, we fail to repeat our successes

  2. Where are the Goalposts?

    in response to Luis Villa on SSPL and OSI

  3. Righteous, Expedient, Wrong

    OSI swings at Elastic, misses, and leaves a mess

  4. SSPL Was Not Commons Clause

    how open licensing blew its biggest opportunity of the 2010s

  5. API Copyleft

    functionality, interfaces, and line drawing in a new copyleft paradigm

  6. Shared Component License

    first shot at a short, plain license in the vein of Mongo’s SSPL

  7. Selective Openness

    making money by choosing what to give away

  8. The Copyleft Bust Up

    loopholes, licenses, and realpolitik in open source