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Can you elaborate on why you chose to go with SSPL license? I want to open source a project and have been thinking between SSPL and AGPL. I am held back by OSI stating that the SSPL is does not comply with its Open Source Definition because it discriminates against specific fields of endeavor, describing it as a "fauxpen" source license.

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Good question. This was a hard question for us last year and we chose SSPL for the time being as a early stage startup to offer some protection. AGPL allows anyone to deploy your system and re-sell it, but SSPL requires the person to open source their additions that they make for their platform, which benefits the project itself.

*Caveat*: This is super nuanced and hotly debated, so this is high level and no perfect answer here.

Mid term, we plan to move from SSPL to a more open license in the future as we further develop our open source project.

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