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I might be reading this wrong, but doesn't this qualify as a "super viral" license in that any code that in any way is part of the stack for hosting Mongo as a
by oropolo 8y ago
I might be reading this wrong, but doesn't this qualify as a "super viral" license in that any code that in any way is part of the stack for hosting Mongo as a Service must be open sourced as well? Granted, a company could buy a commercial license to avoid this but if (for the sake of example) Azure's Mongo hosting was using the open source license would this mean that EVERYTHING that goes into Azure, down to Windows "Redstone" source code, would need to be released?
- lacker 8y agoYeah. In practice I think the AGPL was already preventing AWS / Google / Azure from selling Mongo-as-a-service, and this license will go even further.
- e12e 8y agoI think this is what a few of the "new" db companies thought the AGPL was (neo4j comes to mind). Not simply "if you write a new query parser and link it into our db, any SaaS customers must get the modifications so the can continue running the service for themselves if you go under.", but more "if manage to extract value by hosting this software, you must give us a cut or all your code". I guess there'll be a fork, like with matiadb/mysql?