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On the HN frontpage not far from this thread, there is a story about 10gen raising $42M with their AGPL licensed MongoDB.
by naner 14y ago
On the HN frontpage not far from this thread, there is a story about 10gen raising $42M with their AGPL licensed MongoDB.
- protomyth 14y agofrom the MongoDB licensing page: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Licensing http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Licensing "The goal of the server license is to require that enhancements to MongoDB be released to the community. Traditional GPL often does not achieve this anymore as a huge amount of software runs in the cloud. For example, Google has no obligation to release their improvements to the MySQL kernel – if they do they are being nice. To make the above practical, we promise that your client application which uses the database is a separate work. To facilitate this, the mongodb.org supported drivers (the part you link with your application) are released under Apache license, which is copyleft free. Note: if you would like a signed letter asserting the above promise please request via email." On the the other hand Opa's statement was "And because of the latter, every program written in Opa, that links to the runtime, must itself be released under the AGPL or the GPL." Very different scenarios for developers.
- naner 14y agoI was just indicating that "License with AGPL at your peril" is an overreaction.
- js4all 14y agoCareful, there is often this misunderstanding with Mongo. Using MongoDB from your program does not require you to open source it. The Drivers which you link against are Apache or MIT licensed and Mongo's AGPL license has a "different work" exception for exactly that use.