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These definitions were written a long ago, in a time when cloud computing wasn't even a buzzword yet.

But I read them and couldn't find anything addressing fields of endeavor. GNU's "four essential freedoms", which imho are a little naive in retrospect, don't say anything about this. They say anyone should be able to "sell copies", but SSPL doesn't disallow this either.

Debian obviously didn't address it either. They clarify: " They can even try to sell it. In practice, it costs essentially no money to make electronic copies of software. Supply and demand will keep the cost down."

I.e. they only allowed it because they thought the free market will take care of it, and didn't imagine how cloud provides will become monopolies of access.

"As a result, you can buy a Debian release on several CDs for just a few USD." - Lol.. that's like trying to apply lessons from the bible to modern life.

Just to broaden the discussion, "fields of endeavor" doesn't just mean cloud services, but also whether you can prevent your software from being used in weapons, or other such morally objectionable applications.




> GNU's "four essential freedoms", which imho are a little naive in retrospect, don't say anything about this.

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose."

That clearly includes purpose of running the progam as a cloud service and profiting from selling it SaaS-style to third parties.




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