MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
Yeah, I'm not necessarily opposed to the general spirit of what they're trying to do here, but this license just doesn't make sense in practice.  Now that I've had more time to look at it, I'd really recommend that everybody stay the f%!# away from MongoDB.<p>This bit in particular really hits the nail on the head:<p><i>Let's assume that it is ok somehow to pass forward other open source software, solving that problem. What about my continuous integration software (e.g. CircleCI), or my business backup software (e.g. Jungle Disk) or my code hosting service (e.g. Github)? There is no logical bound to this license. Taken on its face, I would theoretically be bound to release the internal source code of services from third parties that I included in or relied upon to deliver my service.</i><p>Copyleft is one thing, but this is so invasive and byzantine that it beggars belief that anybody actually thought this license made sense.