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The drivers are all permissive OSS licenses. It's on purpose, they never wanted to own applications that are built on top of MongoDB, but they never wanted to g
by mrkurt 8y ago
The drivers are all permissive OSS licenses. It's on purpose, they never wanted to own applications that are built on top of MongoDB, but they never wanted to give away the server bit either.
- kbumsik 8y agoI meant people seem to install the server too, thinking that the server itself it free. Most of MongoDB tutorials on the internet starts with "how to install locally" without mentioning nothing about the license.
- nepeckman 8y agoThe server _is_ free. As long as you don't modify the server, you don't have any obligations. If you do modify the server, you're only obligated to publish the changes you made to the server. No one is at risk of violating the license by installing it locally and using it in an application.
- lacker 8y agoThe server _is_ free. As long as you don't modify the server, you don't have any obligations. Well, that isn't true any more. If you start selling MongoDB functionality as a service, you now have obligations, even if you didn't modify it.
- nepeckman 8y agoYeah good point, though even under this new license, you shouldn't face issues for locally installing the server and using it in your application.