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You can go after their western subsidiaries and thus keep them out of western markets
by christkv 8y ago
You can go after their western subsidiaries and thus keep them out of western markets
- kstrauser 8y agoHow does this change make that any easier. I’m asking genuinely.
- christkv 8y agoI guess they could get injunctions to shut them down in places like the eu and us (basically blocking them, or getting fines). I've no idea if this is easy or not but it could be used as a negotiation tactic (I'm guessing here) to negotiate a license deal.
- kstrauser 8y agoBut what I wonder is why it would be any more illegal to violate this license than the perfectly normal old one? And if it’s not, then why bother?
- christkv 8y agoI'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that the AGPL does not stop you from offering it as a service as it does not explicitly say you need to contribute back anything that is not direct modifications to the server source code. But that's just how I read it.
- stonogo 8y agoThis new license has language that allows the 'infringer' to pay their way out. This is a shorter path toward proving damages in a US court. This license is basically a litigation cannon being wheeled around to aim at people who are currently making the money that MongoDB wishes it were making.