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> It explicitly prohibits corporations from parasitically competing with an open source project. Many projects are moving from an AGPL-like license to a propri
by rustc 5y ago
> It explicitly prohibits corporations from parasitically competing with an open source project.
Many projects are moving from an AGPL-like license to a proprietary license just to prevent this though. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and just yesterday, Apollo Federation 2.
- sofixa 5y agoThat's not entirely correct. Elastic and Mongo weren't using AGPL in the first place, they had MIT/Apache type licenses. Generally we're seeing open core/source startups moving to AGPL or proprietary source available licenses (Grafana, Sentry to name a few more).
- rustc 5y agoMongoDB was using AGPL before they created and switched to SSPL [1]. You're right about ElasticSearch, they were Apache-2.0 before creating and switching to the SSPL + Elastic License dual license [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch