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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/tylertravisty on 2025-02-16 16:32:50+00:00.

All of the cloud protection source-available licenses (Elastic, etc) forbid cloud providers from offering the software as a service, which breaks the OSI requirement of being freely available. Has anyone developed a strong copy left license to expand the covered works to include any code used to manage the open source software? Meaning, if a cloud provider offered their own version of the software as a service, the copy left would then cover all of the cloud provider’s entire codebase for their cloud platform. This would effectively prevent the major providers from using it while keeping the license compatible with OSI. If AWS or Azure wanted to host the software, they would have to open source their entire cloud platform, which they would obviously never do.