After spending some time reviewing this licencse the only conclusion I come to is that this license is malicious...let me explain
Let say you are a young startup building a cool SaaS solution. E.g. A data analytics solution.
If you make heavy use of MongoDB it is very possible that down the line the good folks at MongoDB come calling since "the value of your SaaS derives primarily from MongoDB..." So at that point you have two options - buy a license from MongoDB or open source your work (which they can conveniently leverage at no cost).
Either way if you are SaaS solution doing anything data related I would not use MongoDB having read this license.
I think we're all on the same page about the shoddiness of being in the open source insurance business, but that is not what the SSPL is for, nor could it be used for that. We simply can't make the claim that any SaaS other than specifically MongoDB as a service derives primarily from MongoDB -- or rather, it it's possible to make the claim, but it's easier to defeat it.
The whole point of this discussion is that MongoDB, Inc could make that claim (as you agree)...and we as users of MongoDB will have to spend money fighting off that claim. You'd have to pretty naive to use software that has these terms.
Sorry, let me clarify. It's always possible to claim anything. I meant that the claim is too weak for the SSPL to create that threat.
It's obvious that several people disagree, but within this thread, conversing about this article, we should expect a bias to see things that way. I hope you'll stay open to being convinced otherwise. The SSPL has been submitted for review to the OSI, and this issue is one of the points of discussion that we're listening very closely to.
It’s great that you’re listening closely, but it seems to me that regardless of what OSI says, the consensus is that nobody in this thread will continue to use MongoDB under this new license.
Let say you are a young startup building a cool SaaS solution. E.g. A data analytics solution. If you make heavy use of MongoDB it is very possible that down the line the good folks at MongoDB come calling since "the value of your SaaS derives primarily from MongoDB..." So at that point you have two options - buy a license from MongoDB or open source your work (which they can conveniently leverage at no cost).
Either way if you are SaaS solution doing anything data related I would not use MongoDB having read this license.