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VERSION 1, OCTOBER 16, 2018
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0. Definitions.
âThis Licenseâ refers to Server Side Public License.
âCopyrightâ also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of
works, such as semiconductor masks.
âThe Programâ refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
License. Each licensee is addressed as âyouâ. âLicenseesâ and
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exact copy. The resulting work is called a âmodified versionâ of the
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A âcovered workâ means either the unmodified Program or a work based on
the Program.
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permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for
infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a
computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying,
distribution (with or without modification), making available to the
public, and in some countries other activities as well.
To âconveyâ a work means any kind of propagation that enables other
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The Corresponding Source for a work in source code form is that same work.
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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
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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.
Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated
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reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of
violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and
you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.
Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the
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reinstated, you do not qualify to receive new licenses for the same
material under section 10.
9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a
copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring
solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a
copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than
this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered
work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License.
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10. Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.
Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives
a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that
work, subject to this License. You are not responsible for enforcing
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organization, or merging organizations. If propagation of a covered work
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paragraph, plus a right to possession of the Corresponding Source of the
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get it with reasonable efforts.
You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights
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under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a
cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim
is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing
the Program or any portion of it.
11. Patents.
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include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further
modification of the contributor version. For purposes of this definition,
âcontrolâ includes the right to grant patent sublicenses in a manner
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use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate
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sue for patent infringement). To âgrantâ 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
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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. âKnowingly relyingâ 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.
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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.
A patent license is âdiscriminatoryâ if it does not include within the
scope of its coverage, prohibits the exercise of, or is conditioned on
the non-exercise of one or more of the rights that are specifically
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a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of
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based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under
which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the
covered work from you, a discriminatory patent license (a) in connection
with copies of the covered work conveyed by you (or copies made from
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products or compilations that contain the covered work, unless you
entered into that arrangement, or that patent license was granted, prior
to 28 March 2007.
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 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. 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.
âService Source Codeâ 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.
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 Server Side Public
License âor any later versionâ 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 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 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.
15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM âAS ISâ WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
16. Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS
THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING
ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU
OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
17. Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16.
If the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability provided above
cannot be given local legal effect according to their terms, reviewing
courts shall apply local law that most closely approximates an absolute
waiver of all civil liability in connection with the Program, unless a
warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a copy of the Program in
return for a fee.
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