MongoDB introduced SSPL back in October in response to foreign cloud providers like Alibaba, Tencent, Yandex and Baidu taking the company's software and selling it from their clouds.with the license, but MongoDB says it still plans to use SSPL for its software and possibly draft an alternative license in the future.
However, MongoDB has submitted several versions of the SSPL to the Open Source Initiative , the organization that officially decides what does and doesn't qualify as open source. Indeed, MongoDB has maintained that the SSPL is still an open source license. MongoDB plans to continue working to improve SSPL, and might consider developing a new license that will be more widely accepted by the open source community, Horowitz said. MongoDB's database software will still be free to use under SSPL, which means that users can use, modify or distribute the code as long as it complies with the license, which requires some users to release the changes they make to MongoDB as open source.
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