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## AGPL v3 compared to SSPL-v1.0

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--- AGPL.txt	2020-10-10 15:48:47.163791658 -0700
+++ SSPL.txt	2020-10-10 15:49:26.214962161 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 0. Definitions.
-"This License" refers to version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License.
+"This License" refers to Server Side Public License.
 
 "Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of works, such as semiconductor masks.
 
@@ -17,41 +17,46 @@
 
 1. Source Code.
 The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. "Object code" means any non-source form of a work.
+
 A "Standard Interface" means an interface that either is an official standard defined by a recognized standards body, or, in the case of interfaces specified for a particular programming language, one that is widely used among developers working in that language.
 
 The "System Libraries" of an executable work include anything, other than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of packaging a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an implementation is available to the public in source code form. A "Major Component", in this context, means a major essential component (kernel, window system, and so on) of the specific operating system (if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used to produce the work, or an object code interpreter used to run it.
 
-The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those
-subprograms and other parts of the work.
+The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms and other parts of the work.
 
 The Corresponding Source need not include anything that users can regenerate automatically from other parts of the Corresponding Source.
 
 The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that same work.
 
 2. Basic Permissions.
-All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
-You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.
+All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program, subject to section 13. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
+
+Subject to section 13, you may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force. You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.
 
 Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary.
 
 3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.
 No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures.
+
 When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of technological measures.
 
 4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.
 You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.
+
 You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.
 
 5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.
 You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
+
 a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.
 b) The work must carry prominent notices stating that it is released under this License and any conditions added under section 7. This requirement modifies the requirement in section 4 to "keep intact all notices".
-c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.
-d) If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your work need not make them do so.
+c)You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.
+d)If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your work need not make them do so.
 A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.
 
 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.
 You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these ways:
+
 a) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by the Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange.
 b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
 c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord with subsection 6b.
@@ -71,11 +76,12 @@
 
 7. Additional Terms.
 "Additional permissions" are terms that supplement the terms of this License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions. Additional permissions that are applicable to the entire Program shall be treated as though they were included in this License, to the extent that they are valid under applicable law. If additional permissions apply only to part of the Program, that part may be used separately under those permissions, but the entire Program remains governed by this License without regard to the additional permissions.
+
 When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of it. (Additional permissions may be written to require their own removal in certain cases when you modify the work.) You may place additional permissions on material, added by you to a covered work, for which you have or can give appropriate copyright permission.
 
 Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms:
 
-a) Disclaiming warranty or limiting liability differently from the terms of sections 15 and 16 of this License; or
+a)Disclaiming warranty or limiting liability differently from the terms of sections 15 and 16 of this License; or
 b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it; or
 c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that material, or requiring that modified versions of such material be marked in reasonable ways as different from the original version; or
 d) Limiting the use for publicity purposes of names of licensors or authors of the material; or
@@ -87,7 +93,7 @@
 
 Additional terms, permissive or non-permissive, may be stated in the form of a separately written license, or stated as exceptions; the above requirements apply either way.
 
-8. Termination.
+8.Termination.
 You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify it is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License (including any patent licenses granted under the third paragraph of section 11).
 
 However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.
@@ -113,10 +119,9 @@
 
 Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.
 
-In the following three paragraphs, a "patent license" is any express agreement or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent (such as an express permission to practice a patent or covenant not to s ue for patent infringement). To "grant" such a patent license to a party means to make such an agreement or commitment not to enforce a patent against the party.
+In the following three paragraphs, a "patent license" is any express agreement or commitment, however denominated, not to enforce a patent (such as an express permission to practice a patent or covenant not to sue for patent infringement). To "grant" such a patent license to a party means to make such an agreement or commitment not to enforce a patent against the party.
 
-If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, -
- and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to 
-copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a 
- publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, 
- then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so 
- available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the 
- patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner 
- consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent
-license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly relying" means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid.
+If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, 
+and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to 
+copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a 
+publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, 
+then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so 
+available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the 
+patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner 
+consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent 
+license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly relying" means you have 
+actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the 
+covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work 
+in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that 
+country that you have reason to believe are valid.
 
 If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties receiving the covered work authorizing them to use, propagate, modify or convey a specific copy of the covered work, then the patent license you grant is automatically extended to all recipients of the covered work and works based on it.
 
@@ -125,20 +130,19 @@
 Nothing in this License shall be construed as excluding or limiting any implied license or other defenses to infringement that may otherwise be available to you under applicable patent law.
 
 12. No Surrender of Others' Freedom.
-If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or 
- otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not 
- excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot convey a 
- covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this 
-License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you 
-may
-not convey it at all. For example, if you agree to terms that obligate 
-you to collect a royalty for further conveying from those to whom you 
-convey the Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and 
-this License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.
+If conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or +otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not 
+excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot use, 
+propagate or convey a covered work so as to satisfy simultaneously your 
+obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, +
+then as a consequence you may not use, propagate or convey it at all. 
+For example, if you agree to terms that obligate you to collect a 
+royalty for further conveying from those to whom you convey the 
+Program, the only way you could satisfy both those terms and this 
+License would be to refrain entirely from conveying the Program.
 
-13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.
-Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.
+13. Offering the Program as a Service.
+If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version.
 
-Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
+"Service Source Code" means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.
 
 14. Revised Versions of this License.
-The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU Affero General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
+MongoDB, Inc. may publish revised and/or new versions of the Server Side Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.
 
-Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program 
-specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU Affero General 
-Public License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the 
- option 
-of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered version 
-or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the 
-Program does not specify a version number of the GNU Affero General 
-Public License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free -
-Software Foundation.
+Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program +specifies that a certain numbered version of the Server Side Public 
+License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option of 
+following the terms and conditions either of that numbered version orof 
+any later version published by MongoDB, Inc. If the Program does not 
+specify a version number of the Server Side Public License, you may 
+choose any version ever published by MongoDB, Inc.
 
-If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions 
-of the GNU Affero General Public License can be used, that proxy's 
-public statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you 
-to choose that version for the Program.

+If the Program specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions
+of the Server Side Public License can be used, that proxy's public 
+statement of acceptance of a version permanently authorizes you to 
+choose that version for the Program.
 
 Later license versions may give you additional or different 
 permissions. However, no additional obligations are imposed on any 
 author or copyright holder as a result of your choosing to follow a 
 later version.
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