Disclaimer: IANAL. From MongoDB, Inc's POV, its fine to run MongoDB in-house for the purposes of supporting some user-facing application. Coinbase would be a g

Disclaimer: IANAL. From MongoDB, Inc's POV, its fine to run MongoDB in-house for the purposes of supporting some user-facing application. Coinbase would be a good example, they make a consumer product that uses MongoDB as the storage backend. What is definitely not allowed is selling fully hosted MongoDB instances. E.g. (https://cloud.yandex.ru/docs/mdb/ https://cloud.yandex.ru/docs/mdb/). To do this you will need to open-source all the supporting infra/automation code which will be a deal breaker in many cases. The real grey area is a service like Parse or Firebase that is built on Mongo but offers a Mongo-like DBaaS. Is it against the SSPL to build a service like that? Or is MongoDB, Inc trying to force everyone to use its MongoDB Stitch service [0]? [0] - https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/stitch https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/stitch