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The article is missing the specifics of what Mongo are saying that others are doing that they won't be able to do under this new licence.
by nebulous1 8y ago
The article is missing the specifics of what Mongo are saying that others are doing that they won't be able to do under this new licence.
- DannyBee 8y agoThe license is very clear, you'd have to ship the entire system around it.
- y04nn 8y agoAGPL: 'if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there.' Some companies are illegally running a modified version of MongoDB while keeping their changes closed source. As I understand, the new licence will allow them to do that if they pay a commercial licence (contributing to the project by financing instead of coding).
- pritambaral 8y agoAGPL does not require the copyright-holder to license the work exclusively under the AGPL, only those that received the work under the AGPL. People and companies are free to receive from copyright-holders their works under different — even commercial — licenses, irrespective of which (and how many) (non-exclusive) licenses the copyright-holders have used in the past for the same works. In the matter of allowing commercial licensing by the copyright-holder, the AGPL and this new license do not differ.