No, I was saying that procurement will tell you to use Mongo under AGPL (the free alternative) and not to embed it in the app (if you can). What I meant is that

No, I was saying that procurement will tell you to use Mongo under AGPL (the free alternative) and not to embed it in the app (if you can). What I meant is that procurement takes OSS-licensed code as a "given" and carefully considers what they get on top of the base product when they pay money (while developers often think that they are charging for the whole thing, but in "enterprise" context). And that is where the blue ocean ends. Independent of that, you are completely right that most serious companies view non-standard free/"free" licenses as commercial and simply consider those as non-OSS products just like they would otherwise.