The SSPL is not recognized as free software by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Red Hat,[5] or Debian[6] as the aforementioned provision is discriminatory towards specific fields of use.
[4] MongoDB Inc. stated that Section 13 in the AGPL (which requires that those using the AGPL-licensed software over a network have the ability to obtain the source code for the software, as used) had an unclear scope, and that the SSPL's version "clearly and explicitly sets forth the conditions to offering the licensed program as a third-party service".
Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora subsequently dropped MongoDB, citing concerns about the SSPL.
[16] Other users of the Elasticsearch ecosystem, led by Amazon Web Services, and including Logz.io, CrateDB, Red Hat and Aiven, also collaborated on the open source fork, leading to the creation of the OpenSearch software.
This change in licensing upset many users, prompting The Linux Foundation to create a fork called Valkey, using Redis' final BSD-licensed iteration as a base.